CIMRM 254-255 - Cautes and Cautopates. Regio 1, Ostia.

254. Two marble statues (H. 0.42). Roma, Mus. Lateran, Nos. 968 and 958. Visconti, 164 and PI. LM, 1,2; Benndorf-Schöne, Nos 502,504; MMM II 243k and figs. 72, 74; RRS III 139,8; Leipoldt, figs. 33, 34; Anderson, No. 24141 (see our fig. 76); Paschetto, Ostia, 392 fig. 118; Becatti, Mitrei Ostia, 54 and Pl. XXXV. Inscriptions are engraved in the bases of the statues. The front sides have representations in relief of Cautes and Cautopates in Eastern attire. Cross-legged. They hold their torches with both hands. On the sides a jug and patera. Upon these bases there are statues of the same torchbearers in the same attitudes and dresses. Traces of gilding (Visconti, 162 and Atti Acc. Pont. XV, CXXXVIII). 255. CIL XIV 58, 59; MMM II No. 133. On the front-side: C. Caelius / Ermeros / ant/istes huius lo/ci fecit sua / pec(unia). On the left-side: Positi XV k(alendas) / febrarias / Q. luuio Rus/tieo / L. Plaut[io] / Aquilin[o] / co[(n)s[ulibus)]. 162 A.D. As the Mithraeum is probably contemporaneous with the therms of Septimius Severus, these monuments can origin from an older Mithraeum and reused here. C. Caelius Ermeros also dedicated an altar in the Mitreo delle Pareti dipinte (No. 269).