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Monumentum

Altar with Phrygian caps from Mithraeum I, Carnuntum

Sandstone altar from Mithraeum I at Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, decorated on each lateral face with a Phrygian cap upon a dagger — a distinctive Mithraic iconographic pairing — and bearing an inscription on the front.
Altar with Phrygian caps from Mithraeum I, CarnuntumCIMRM
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Altar in sandstone (H. 0.95 Br. 0.44–0.70 D. 0.38). Inv. No. III, 23.Arneth, 333, 4; v. Sacken, Taf. I, 5; MMM II 330e and fig. 200. See fig. 427 (r. side).The altar has on its corners four columns, of which those at the front are broken off. On each side piece a Phrygian cap upon a dagger. In the front an inscription:

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