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Torchbearer head from Cannstatt

Small sandstone head in Phrygian cap from Cannstatt, ancient Clarenna, probably belonging to a statue of Cautes or Cautopates.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2200 ↔ CIMRM 1299

Head in sandstone (H. 0.115) found at Cannstatt "Bei Kanalbauten in der Karlstrasze". Stuttgart, Württembergisches Landesmuseum.

MMM II 524 No. 309bis and fig. 491; Haug-Sixt, Röm. Inschr. Württ., 173 No. 255 and fig.

Head in Phrygian cap probably of a torchbearer.

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