Monumentum
Cautes and Cautopates of Friedberg
These two reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates where found in the south corner of one of the Mithraea of Friedberg, Hesse.
The New Mithraeum
30 Aug 2023
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Ph. Dieffenbach in AHGA VI, 1851,250 and fig. 1; Goldmann, 290 and Pl. I, 2; de Ring, Cautopates; MMM II 357 No. 248d and fig. 233/4; Esp. Rec. Germ., 57f No. 84.
1) Cautes in Oriental dress and cross-legged with upraised torch (H. 0.37 Br. 0.15 D. 0.09). Hands, base with feet and part of the legs are lost.
2) Standing Cautopates (H. 0.49 Br. 0.145 D.0.085) in
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