Monumentum
Smiling Mithras head from Mithraeum II, Ptuj
Small marble head from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting a smiling Mithras in Phrygian cap with a profiled reverse — one of the most expressive Mithraic heads from the Danubian provinces.
Smiling Mithras head from Mithraeum II, PtujCIMRM
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1648 ↔ CIMRM 1559
Small marble head (H. 0.17). Inv. No. 12.
Abramić, 82 No. 83 and fig. 22. See fig. 395.
Head of smiling Mithras in Phrygian cap. The reverse is profiled.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
