Monumentum
Marble vase fragment with Sol and Cautes from Portus
Fragment of a marble vase found near Portus by Prince Torlonia, showing a bearded head in radiate crown (Sol) and Cautes with upraised torch, with a Mithras representation now lost, now itself lost.
The New Mithraeum
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 954 ↔ CIMRM 322
Fragment of a marble vase, found near Portus by Prince Torlonia. Lost.
de Rossi in BAC 1866; MMM II 246f No. 85bis; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 131 No. 8.
Underneath the inscription No. 323 a bearded(?) head in a radiate crown (Sol). Under it Cautes with upraised torch. Right of him certainly there was a Mithras-representation, which has got lost.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
