The New Mithraeum Database

This simple relief of Mithras killing the bull without his companions Cautes and Cautopates was found in the so-called Mithraeum of the Esquilino, Rome.

TNMM645 – CIMRM 357

In the Mithraic bronze brooch found in Ostia, Cautes and Cautopates have been replaced by a nightingale and a cock.

TNMM369 – CIMRM 318

Mithras and Sol share a sacred meal accompanied by Cautes and Cautopates on a relief found in a cemetery from Croatia.

TNMM304

The sculpture of the solar god is signed by its author, Demetrios.

TNMM242 – CIMRM 773, 774

This sculpture may be a naked dadophorus, probably Cautopates.

TNMM243 – CIMRM 775

The two fellows of Mithras from Marquise, Boulogne-sur-Mer, are fully naked but for the cloak and the Phrygian cap.

TNMM299 – CIMRM 951

The archeologists have found three fragments of the Tauroctony of Lucciana, which includes Cautes and Cautopates.

TNMM220

The remains of the mithraic triptic of Tróia, Lusitania, were part of a bigger composition.

TNMM245 – CIMRM 798

The relief of Mithras killing the bull, found near Zvornik in Bosnia and Herzegovina, features some variations on the usual scene.

TNMM765

The relief of Mithras killing the bull of Stefano Rotodon preserves part of his polycromy and depicts two unusual figures: Hesperus and an owl.

TNMM365