Monumentum
Fresco of Cautopates from Capua
Fresco depicting Cautopates in Eastern attire between two laurels, cross-legged, pointing his torch downwards over a burning altar, from the Mithraeum of Capua.
CIMRM 183Vermaseren's Corpus
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 894 ↔ CIMRM 183
Fresco (H. 1.08 Br. 0.95) on the South wall above the beginning of the podium. Minto, l.c., fig. 8; Campanile, l.c., fig. 4.
Representation of Cautopates between two laurels and in Eastern attire. He points down his torch above a burning altar; in the upraised l.h. a bundle of twigs. Cross-legged.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
