-
Cautes holds a
burning torch pointed up,
whereas Cautopates holds a
burning torch pointed down.
Cautopates is
usually depicted on the left, but not always...
-
Cautes with his
torch pointing up, and
Cautopates with his
torch pointing down.(p 98–99)
Sometimes Cautes and
Cautopates carry shepherds'
crooks instead of...
- of the torch-bearing
celestial twins of
Light and Darkness,
Cautes and
Cautopates,
within the
cosmic annual wheel of the zodiac. At the top left, outside...
-
Cautes and
Cautopates).
Marcus Antonius Victorinus,
Decurion of the
colony of Aquin****. Aedile. As
above though to DEO CAU/TOPATI / To
Cautopates... (See...
-
figures of the god
Mithras as well as
those of his
helpers Cautes and
Cautopates are
routinely depicted with a
Phrygian cap. The
function of the Phrygian...
- free-standing
tauroctony statuary, are
representations of
Cautes and
Cautopates, the
torchbearering twins that
appear as
miniature versions of Mithras...
-
statues depict the god
carrying the bull, two of his attendants,
Cautes and
Cautopates, each
holding a torch, two
other characters that are more
difficult to...
- similarities. They
often depict Dadop****s, "torchbearers"
named Cautes and
Cautopates, "young
acolytes of Mithra," a lion, and
scenes of time and Mithra's birth...
-
Mithras slaying a bull) on its
front face. The
torchbearers Cautes and
Cautopates appear on
respectively the left and
right faces of the same monument....
- men
representing the
twins of the
rising and
setting sun,
Cautes and
Cautopates. Traditionally,
scholarship surrounding Mithras'
mythological beginnings...
