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Monumentum

Relief of Cautopates leaning on a column

Fragmentary limestone relief showing the torchbearer Cautopates with a pedum.
 
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28 May 2026

TNMM 2147 ↔ CIMRM 1033

Fragment of relief in limestone (H. 0.35), place of discovery unknown. Bonn, University Museum.

Hettner, Katalog No. 219; MMM II 386 No. 263.

Standing Cautopates with torch in his r.h. The l. arm leaning upon a column, he seems to hold a pedum in his l.h. The head, the feet and part of a leg are broken off.

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