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Monumentum

Altar to Petra Genetrix from Aquincum

Small limestone altar from Aquincum, Budapest, dedicated to Petra Genetrix.
Altar Petrae Genetrici from Aquincum.Aquincumi Múzeum / Ortolf Harl
 
The New Mithraeum
26 Feb 2026

TNMM 1400 ↔ CIMRM 1743

Small altar (H. 0.80; Br. 0.43; D. 0.34). Between two akroteria a lilylike flower. Budapest, National Museum (Inv. no. 328).

Petrae / genetrici.

Main inscription

Petrae genetrici.
To the Mother Rock.

References

Kuzsinszky in BpR XII (1937), 120, no. 39 and fig. 43.

Comments

wHAT?WHat???
Wouldn’t you be unveiling the secret doctrine?
lol my bad
CIMRM 1743
You’re as dyslexic as me! 😉
(Gotta love that the inventory number is stamped right on the stomach.)
And what about the lily-like flower? Is it just me, or does it look like a opium poppy?
I kinda see a pineapple...
I see pineapples everywhere
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