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Monumentum

Cautopates relief from Heddernheim

Fragment of a sandstone relief from Nida-Heddernheim depicting the torchbearer Cautopates.
 
The New Mithraeum
29 May 2026

TNMM 2586 ↔ CIMRM 1135

Fragment of a sandstone relief (H. 0.33 Br. 0.23 D. 0.15). Inv. No. 256. Dr. H. Schoppa writes that the monument does not come from one of the Mithraic temples, but was discovered separately.

Standing torchbearer with a torch downwards in his r.h. (Cautopates). Lower part of his body, his head, and his l.h. are lost; the foremost part of the torch is broken off.

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