Monumentum
Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj
This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.
The New Mithraeum
19 Jan 2022
Updated on 12 Nov 2022
Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj
Ortolf Harl via Lupa.at
Altar from Ptuj (left side)
Ortolf Harl via Lupa.at
Altar from Ptuj (left side)
Ortolf Harl via Lupa.at
Altar from Ptuj (left side)
Ortolf Harl via Lupa.at
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Votive altar in white marble (H. 0.84 Br. 0.38 D. 0.305), found near 6. Inv. No. XXXXVII.
The upper part of the altar is decorated with arches. On the l. side a cock is perched on a tortoise; on the r. side a raven upon a bow, a Phrygian cap and a dagger. Above its head a star. In the front an inscription:
L.H. 0.025-0.03.
Invict(o) Mithrae / et transitu dei / Theodorus p(ublici) p(ortorii) / scrut(ator) stat(ionis) Poet(ovionensis) / ex visu.Gurlitt in JOAI 1899, 97f No. 6 with fig.; MCC, 92; Abramic, 167f No.
The upper part of the altar is decorated with arches. On the l. side a cock is perched on a tortoise; on the r. side a raven upon a bow, a Phrygian cap and a dagger. Above its head a star. In the front an inscription:
CIMRM 1497
CIL III 1435427L.H. 0.025-0.03.
Invict(o) Mithrae / et transitu dei / Theodorus p(ublici) p(ortorii) / scrut(ator) stat(ionis) Poet(ovionensis) / ex visu.