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.
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The New Mithraeum
20 Dec 2024
Updated on May 2026
TNMM 1375 ↔ CIMRM 1716 & 1717
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.
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:
L.H. 0.045.
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Vindilius?) Cupitus / sig(nifer) leg(ionis) XIIII g(eminae) A(ntoninianae) et / Vind(ilius?) Iulianus / voto) p(osuerunt) patre Paterno.
Date: Beginning of the third century.
Main inscription
D[eo] i[nvicto] M[ithrae] / Vindilius?] Cupitus / sig[nifer] leg[ionis] XIIII g[eminae] A[ntoninianae] et / Vind[ilius?] Iulianus / voto] p[osuerunt] patre Paterno.
To the Unconquered God Mithras, Vindilius [?] Cupitus, standard-bearer of the Fourteenth Twin Legion of Antoninus, and Vindilius [?] Julianus, placed [this] in fulfillment of a vow, with Paternus as father [of the ceremony].
References
Maionica, Felsgeb., No. XII; MMM II 332 No. 228 and fig. 206; Kubitschek, Bilderatlas, No. 26. CIL III 11152; MMM II No. 375; Betz in JOAI 29, 1935 (Beibl.) 303 No. 162; Vorbeck, 30 No. 56.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
