Monumentum
Cautes with bull head of Sarmizegetusa
This sculpture of Cautes holding a bull’s head was found in 1882 in Sarmizegetusa, Romania.
Cautes of Sarmizegetusa
O. Harl, lupa 17592
Cautes of Sarmizegetusa
Muzeul Sarmizegetusa Ortolf Harl 2010
CIMRM 2122
Vermaseren's Corpus
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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