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Monumentum

Mithras birth from Petronell

Only parts of the knees of Mithras, emerging from the rock, have been preserved from this monument of Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria.
  • Petrogeny from Petronell.

    Petrogeny from Petronell.
    Ortolf Harl 2017 September 

  • Petrogeny from Petronell.

    Petrogeny from Petronell.
    Gabrielle Kremer 

 
The New Mithraeum
20 Dec 2024
Updated on Dec 2023

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Fragment of a white marble statue (H. 0.34 Br. 0.37 D. 0.13). Vienna (Wien), Kunsthistorisches Museum. Inv. No. I, 363. Found in the 19th century in Deutsch-Altenburg.Maionica, Felsgeb., No. XII; MMM II 332 No. 228 and fig. 206; Kubitschek, Bilderatlas, No. 26.Part of a representation of Mithra’s rockbirth. Only parts of the god’s knees emergin from the rock. Beside his l. knee part orf a serpent. On the base an inscription:CIL III 11152; MMM II No. 375; Betz in JOAI 29, 1935 (Beibl.) 303 No. 162; Vorbeck, 30 No. 56.L.H. 0.045.D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Vindilius?) Cupitus / sig(nifer) l…
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