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Monumentum

Marble statue of Cautopates from Ostia

This marble statuette from Ostia depicts Cautopates lowering his torch beside a tapering rock associated with Mithras’ birth from stone.
Cautopates from Ostia.Arachne
 
The New Mithraeum
21 Dec 2024
Updated on May 2026

TNMM 921 ↔ CIMRM 256

Marble statuette (H. 0.57 Br. O. 22), according to Giornale d’Italia 28, 3, 1860 (quoted by Benndorf-Schöne, 359 No. 586) found together with the preceding Nos.

Cautopates dressed in short tunica and a cloak, which is draped over the l. arm. Not crossed-legged. On the head with long hair no Phrygian cap. With his r.h. he points a burning torch downwards. Beside his l. leg a piece of rock, tapering upwards (petra genetrix). Behind the other leg a rocky support. The I.h. is broken off.

References

Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 55 and PI. XXXVII, 2; Lateran Mus. No. 966.

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