Monumentum
Marble lion with swine's head from Mithraeum II, Ptuj
Marble lion from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, holding a swine's head under its left fore-leg — a sacrificial animal pairing associated with the Mithraic lion grade.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1624 ↔ CIMRM 1535
A marble lion (H. 0.39 Br. 0.37) holding a swine's head under its left fore-leg (Inv. No. 133).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
