CIMRM 477 - Cautes. Santa Prisca Mithraeum. Rome, Italy
See also: CIMRM 476 Mithraeum; 477 Cautes; 478 Oceanus / Saturnus; 479 Tauroctony; Paintings: 480 Upper S. wall, 481 Upper S.(contd), 482 Upper N. wall, 483 Upper, Cave , 484 Under S., 485 Under N.; 486-496 Misc. finds; 497-500 Inscriptions and coins; CIMRM Supplement - Zodiac; Intarsio of Sol.
477.
Statue in Greek marble (H. 1.02), found in niche h.
Ferrua, Mitreo Prisca, 9ff and fig. 5.
Cautes, dressed in a short tunic which does not cover the lower part part of his body; cross-legged. He wears sandals. He leans against a tree-trunk, on which a cock has been represented. Head, and parts of his arms are broken off. In the thighs numerous nail-holes, so the lower part of the body may have been covered with an anaxyrides in stucco. The statue originally was a Mercury and was transformed later on into a Cautes. Traces of red painting.
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