Monumentum
Altar of Flavius Aper for Legio V and XIII from Mithraeum III, Ptuj
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.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1675 ↔ CIMRM 1596
L.H. 0.04.
[D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae)] / [pro salute.... / leg(ionum) V] M(acedonicae) et XIII / [g(eminae) Ga]llienarum / [Fla]vius Aper (vir) e(gregius) / [pra]epositus.
All inscriptions mentioning both Legio V Macedonica and Legio XIII gemina are to be assigned to the second half of the third century A.D. viz. the reign of Gallienus (260–268 A.D.).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
