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Altar of Flavius Iovinus from Mithraeum II, Ptuj

Inscription from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae for the welfare of Flavius Iovinus, who had vowed the gift after witnessing the birth of the god; dated to the consulship of Peregrinus and Aemilianus, AD 244.
 
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27 May 2026

TNMM 1621 ↔ CIMRM 1531

CIL III 15184⁵.

L.H. 0.035.

[D(eo)] S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / [p]ro salute / Fl(avii) Iovini / quot votum / susceperat / it (sic) nuper / nasce[n]tem deum / posuit / Peregrino / et Aemiliano / co(n)s(ulibus) p(atribus) Vird(io?) Fir/mo et Ant(onio) Celeri.....

244 A.D.

Fl. Iovinus is probably identical to Fl. Aurelius Iovinus who occurs on an altar (CIL III 15184²⁸) dedicated to the Nutrices Augustae. This altar originally stood in the sanctuary of the Nutrices and was used afterwards together with other material for the outlet-construction of the spring-water.

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