CIMRM 1127 - Stele: Mithras rock-born, Cautes, Cautopates, Oceanus, all named. Nida / Heddernheim, Germany.


From: Epigraphic Database Heidelberg:

HD no: HD041976; Germania superior; Nida (Civitas Taunensium), now Heddernheim. 51 AD - 200 AD. Now in the Frankfurt-am-Main Arch. Mus. Photographed 2010 by Darius Franckowiak.

CIL 13, 07369. É. Espérandieu, Recueil général des bas-reliefs, statues et bustes de la Germanie romaine, (Paris - Brussel 1931) 104-106, Nr. 157; Fotos.

Caute // c(a)elum // Deo In(victo) M(ithrae) // p(etram) genetricem
// Senilius Car/antinus / c(ivis) Medio/m(atricus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito)
// sive Cracissius
// Caut(o)p(ate) // oceanum

Notes

At the top of the front is "Deo In(victo) Mithrae". In the middle of the front is "p(etram) genetricem". In the lower panel of the front is: "Senilius Car/antinus / c(ivis) Medio/m(atricus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito)". On the bottom of the front is "sive Cracissius". Senilius Carantinus (or Cracissius), a citizen of Milan, dedicated this.

On the left is "Caute" and "c(a)elum". (i.e. Cautes, and sky / heaven)

On the right is "Caut(o)p(ate)" and "oceanum". (i.e. Cautopates, and Ocean).

The Oceanus relief is discussed in M. Kohlert-Nemeth, Specificites locales des sculptures romains de Nida-Heddernheim pls XXXI-XXXIX, in: Hélène Walter(ed.), "La sculpture d'époque romaine dans le nord, dans l'est des Gaules et dans ...", p.77-78. This describes the Oceanus as a "singular" representation, gallo-Roman in nature. The opposite scene of the eagle is said to show Jupiter in the form of an eagle above the universe: the globe with the seven stars, i.e. planets.

CIMRM entry


1=The letter 's' is unreadable according to Cumont. (RP)

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