CIMRM 875 - Cautes, statuette base. Carlisle, Britain

CIMRM entry

LUGUVALLIUM
875
Base of a statuette, only one foot of which has been preserved (Cautes).
Haverfield, On two inscriptions recently found at Carlisle, Kendal 1894; MMM II No. 485a.
Deo Cauti Iu[lius .... ] / archietus.
archietus: arch(itectus) l(a)etus according to Zangemeister. "Peut-etre vaut-il mieux lire archie[r]us pour ἀρχιερέυς" (Cumont).

Haverfield is "Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society", volume 13.

Luguvallium is Carlisle.

From here (F. Haverfield, "XLI. - Roman inscribed and sculptured stones preserved at Tullie House, Carlisle" in: "Transactions of the Cumberland & Westmorland Antiquarian & Archaeological Society", volume 15 (1899), p.461-503; p.476-7):

XI. CARLISLE.
88. [TH 5] Fragment of pedestal of statuette, in red sandstone, found in English Street, Carlisle; 2 ins. high. (See Fig. 7.) The letters are plain but the sense of line 2 is uncertain. Perhaps we may expand:
Deo Cauti Iu[lius?... Arch(itectus) l(a)etus [l(ibens) s(olvit)].
'To the God Cautes, Iulius ... , architect, pays his vow.' If this is right, one or two of the letters may have been painted instead of being wholly cut. Cautes was a Mithraic god. [Transactions of the Cumberland and Westmorland Arch. Society, xiii, 225).

Tullie House Museum and Art Gallery still has a Roman gallery.