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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

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Inscriptions from Poetovio

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

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-birth of Mithraeum III, 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

Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

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.

Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj

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.

Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from 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.

Tauroctony on altar of 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.

Altar by Hermanio of Poetovio

Cauti // pro salute Fl[avi] / Hermadionis / et Aviti Syriac[i] / et filiorum / Felix libert[us]

Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj

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, vir perfectissimus and dux.

Altar with Sol 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.

Votive altar to Mithras from Poetovio

D[eo] invicto] M[ithrae] / pro salute / Charidemi / Aug[usti] n[ostri] vil[ici] sta[tionis] / Enensis / M. Antonius / Celer votum] s[olvit] l[ibens] m[erito].
To the unconquered god Mithras, for the health of Charidemus, our Emperor’s estate manager at the station of Enensis, Marcus Antonius Celer gladly and deservedly fulfilled his vow.

Altar to Cautes by Venulus from Ptuj

Cauti / sacr(um) / Venulus / Apon(ii) Ing(enui) (servus) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
Sacred to Cautes. Venulus, slave of Aponius Ingenuus, willingly and deservedly fulfilled his vow.

Cautes statue base from Mithraeum I, Ptuj

Primitivos / C(aii) Antoni Rufi / proc(uratoris) Aug(usti) p(ublici) p(ortorii) (contra)scr(iptor) / in / memoriam / Hyacinthi.
Primitivos, contrascriptor of Caius Antonius Rufus, procurator of Augustus of the public customs, in memory of Hyacinthus.

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