Statuettes and reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates

Excavated in 1858-1860 in two opposed niches in the mithraeum of the Palazzo Imperiale.
Date: 18 January 162 AD. Base with Cautes: w. 0.23, h. 0.44, d. 0.18. Statuette of Cautes: h. 0.42. Base with Cautopates: w. 0.22, h. 0.44, d. 0.18. Statuette of Cautopates: h. 0.43.

On the bases of the statuettes are reliefs of Cautes and Cautopates, both with the inscription:

C(aius) CAELIVS ERMEROS ANT ISTES HVIVS LO CI FECIT SVA PEC(unia)

Caius Caelius Ermeros, overseer of this place, made it with his own money.

and on one of the bases, on the side:

POSITI XV K(alendas) FEBRARIAS Q(uinto) IVNIO RVS TICO L(ucio) PLAVT(io) AQVILIN(o) CO(n)[s(ulibus)]

Placed 18 January, Quintus Iunius Rusticus and Lucius Plautius Aquilinus being consuls [162 AD].

Inv. nrs. 10741 A and 10744 A. Formerly Museo Lateranense. Benndorf-Schöne 1867, nrs. 502 and 504. CIL XIV, 58 and 59. EDR143930 and 143932. EDCS-05700059. Arachne 21348, 21349, 130337, and 130338. Photos: Arachne.