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Poetovio

Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovio

The Romans controlled Poetovium until the 1st century BC. It became the base camp of the Legio XIII Gemina, where they built a castrum.

Mithraic monuments of Poetovio

 

Mithraeum III of Ptuj

Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.

CIMRM 1578

 

Mithraeum I of Ptuj

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

CIMRM 1487

 

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.

CIMRM 1492

 

Mithraeum II of Ptuj

Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.

CIMRM 1509

 

Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

CIMRM 1593

 

Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

CIMRM 1584

 

Consecration for Jupiter and Hercules

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

 

Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj

The sculpture of Mithras carrying the bull includes an inscription on its base.

CIMRM 1494

 

Relief fragment of Ptuj

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

CIMRM 1579

 

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.

CIMRM 1496

 

Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj

Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.

CIMRM 1589

 

Mithraeum V of Ptuj

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

 

Altar by Hermanio of Poetovio

A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

 

Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj

This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.

CIMRM 1614

 

Mithraic vignettes of Ptuj

These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

CIMRM 1510

 

Altar with Sol from Ptuj

This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.

CIMRM 1591

Inscriptions of Poetovio

Naturae dei / Prudens Primi / Antoni Rufi p(ublici) p(ortorii) / vil(ici) vic(arius).
To the birth of God. Prudentus, under the management of Primus, caretaker of the public customs office (tenant) Antonius Rufus.

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro sal(ute) officialium Apri prae/positi leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) et XIII gem(inae) / Galli(enarum).
To the invincible god Sol Mithras, for the salvation of the members of the administrative office (officiales) of [Flavius] Aper, commander of the Macedonian legions V and XIII Gemina Galliens

Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj

D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro sal(ute) d(omini) n(ostri) Gallieni p(ii) f(elicis) / invicti Aug(usti) Fl(avius) Aper v(ir) e(gregius) l(ibens) m(erito).
To the invincible god Mithras, for the salvation of our pious and happy master Gallienus, the invincible emperor, Flavius Aper, a remarkable man (= knight), willingly and justly.

Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

Transitu / C(aius) Caecina / Calpurnius / temp(lum) redemi(t) et restitu(it).
For the Transitus, Caius Caecina Calpurnius bought back the temple and restored it.

Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj

Invict(o) Mithrae / et Transitu dei / Theodorus p(ublici) p(ortorii) / scrut(ator) stat(ionis) Poet(ovionensis) / ex visu.
To the invincible Mithras and for the passage (transitus) of the god, Theodorus, scrutator of the customs of the Poetovio station, following a vision.

Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj

D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro (sa) salute /canaliclari / et actariorum /et codicarior(um) / et librariorum / leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) et XIII g(eminae) / Gallienarum.

Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj

Cauti // pro salute Fl(avi) / Hermadionis / et Aviti Syriac(i) / et filiorum / Felix libert(us)

Altar by Hermanio of Poetovio

Templum / dei{i} Sol(is) Inv(icti) Mit(hrae) / Aure[l(ius)] Iusti/nianus v(ir) p(erfectissimus) / dux labefa/ctatum re/stituit.
The temple of the invincible Sol god Mithras, which had collapsed, was restored by Aurelius Iustinianus, perfectissime, dux.

Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj

D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro salute / tesserarior(um) / et custod(um) ar/mor(um) leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) / et XIII gemin(a)e Gallienarum.
To the Unconquered Sun God Mithras, for the well-being of the tessera-bearers and the guards of the weapons of the Legio V Macedonica and the twin Legio XIII Gemina of the Gallieni.

Altar with Sol from Ptuj

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