Monumentum
Relief of Cautopates from Bonna
Limestone relief fragment showing Cautopates beside traces of a tauroctony scene.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2146 ↔ CIMRM 1032
Fragment of a relief in limestone (H. 0.18).
Hettner, Katalog 81 No. 220; MMM II 386 No. 262; Esp. Rec. Gaule VIII, 220 No. 6219.
Standing Cautopates with torch downwards. On the right remnants of another representation, probably Mithras as a bullkiller.
Kraft mentions that all these monuments come from "ein ausgemauertes Grab." An urn with ash was found in it. Cumont justly remarks that here was a speleum of which perhaps only a small part was excavated.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
