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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.
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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.
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.
Gurlitt in JOAI 1899, 97f No. 6 with fig.
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Data
- Location
Mithraeum of Ptuj I, Poetovio, Pannonia superior (Pannonia) (Poetovio), Ptuj (Slovenia) - Current location
Pokrajinski muzej Ptuj (Slovenia) - Type
- Labels
- Dimensions H. 84 W. 38 D. 30 cm
- Dating 2nd century
- Discovery date 1898
- Material Marble (white)
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/413
- CIMRM 1496, 1497
- CIL III 14354/27
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