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Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.
Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.
The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.
Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.
Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.
This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.
Left marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the head of a torchbearer, probably Cautopates, beside remnants of Mithras's flying cloak.
Three marble cornice fragments from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, bearing an inscription recording that the monument was elevated in the manner of Sol, in honour of Cautes and Cautopates.
Inscription from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Invicto Augusto sacrum by an imperial slave serving as hereditatum tabularius — an officer for death-duties — one of the rarer administrative titles attested in Mithraic epigraphy.
Small votive altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an oblong hollow in the top, probably designed to hold a libation or ritual object.
Fragment of a large marble cornice from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving only the beginning of the name Iulian- from the inscription below.
Corner of a marble altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae for the welfare of persons whose names begin Atti- and Saturni-; the rest, including the dedicant, is lost.
Damaged marble relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Cautopates with torch downward on the right and the outline of a standing Cautes on the other side, with a fragmentary inscription in the lower border.
Inscription from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae for the welfare of Legio V Macedonica and Legio XIII Gemina Gallienarum by Flavius Aper, vir egregius praepositus — dated to the reign of Gallienus, AD 260–268.
Marble stele from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, tapering towards the top and bearing a square hollow with five nail-holes designed to hold a small silver plaque — the plaque was removed, perhaps taken by the Mithraists themselves.
Inscription from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, recording that Sextus Vibius Hermes, Augustalis of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovionis, donated a silver signum with its base to Soli invicto Mithrae, with Lucius Vernasius Heraclida presiding as pater.
Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, notable for a three-headed serpent and a dog attempting to lick the blood; the bull's tail ends in three corn-ears.
Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Mithras killing the bull — head and most of the flying cloak lost — flanked by Cautopates holding the torch downward.
Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the upper part of Cautes with his torch raised.
Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Cautopates with the torch pointing downward; head and feet are lost.
Upper portion of a marble relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting a torchbearer in Phrygian cap.
Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving part of Mithras's flying cloak and the scorpion below the bull.
Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the dog and part of the serpent approaching the bull's wound.
Marble altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Aelius Secundus.
Marble altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Aurelius Sabinus, signifer of Legio XIII Gemina.
Marble altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae for the welfare of Emperor Marcus Aurelius Severus Alexander and the Domus Divina by Aelius Aurelianus; dated AD 222–235.
Marble altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated in honour of the Domus Divina to Deo invicto Mithrae by Ulpius Valerianus, veteran of Legio XIII Gemina.
