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Monumentum

Altar with Mithraic symbols from Carnuntum

Sandstone altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, found in a flue of Building VII in 1899, decorated on the left with a raven, corn-ear, and serpent stacked vertically and on the right with a lying lion; dedicated to Invicto deo Mithrae.

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27 May 2026

Altar in sandstone (H. 0.52 Br. 0.22–0.25 D. 0.18). Found in Carnuntum in a flue of Building VII in 1899. Museum Carnuntinum.Bormann, Lim. Oest., II, 153. See fig. 445.On the left a raven, a corn-ear and a serpent the one above the other; on the right a lying lion. In the front the inscription:

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