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Monumentum

Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa

This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.
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The New Mithraeum
11 Mar 2022
Updated on Dec 2024
Statue in limestone (H. 0.89 with base; Br. 0.33 D. 0.18).Standing Cautes in Oriental dress and cross-legged. The r.h. with the torch is broken off; he holds a bull’s head in his l.h. Cautes’ head is lost. In the base an inscription.Studniczka 260 No. 1 and PI. V; Kiraly 26f No. 81 and PI. VII 2; MMM II 284 No. 140 and fig. 130b; RRS Ill 139 1; Floca in ED 1935 219 fig. 4. See fig. 575.CIMRM 2123V(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).CIL III S. 7922; MMM II No. 259b.

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