Monumentum
Inscription with Cautes and Cautopates of Steklen
An unusual feature of this very ancient relief is that Cautopates carries a cockerel upside down, while Cautes carries it right-side up.
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The New Mithraeum
11 Feb 2022
Updated on Feb 2023
TNMM 510 ↔ CIMRM 2268 & 2269
Square marble stone (H. 0.19 Br. 0.34 D. 0.255) broken off at top and bottom, Found at Steklen. Svichtov, Museum.
The front has an inscription. On the r. side standing Cautes with upraised torch in his r.h. With his other hand he holds a cock downwards by its feet. On the l. side standing Cautopates who holds a cock upwards with his l.h.
CIMRM 2269
L.H. 0.025-0.035.
. . . . / leo / Melichrisus / P. Caragoni / Philopalaestri.
Main inscription
Deo / Melichrisus / P. Caragoni / Philopalaestri
Melichrisus [slave of] P. Caragonius Philopalaestrus [in charge of the customs office of the sout shore of Danube] [dedicated] to the god [...].
References
Detschew in JOAI 1939 (Beibl.), 130 No. 7 and fig. 52. See fig. 631.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
