Monumentum
Mithras rock-born from Ptuj
The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.
Petrogenia del Mithraeum I, Ptuj
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Petrogenesis and two aras devoted to Mithras.
The New Mithraeum
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Youthful, naked Mithras being born from the rock around which a serpent is coiling. The head of the god is lacking as well as the greater part of the dagger(r) and of the torch (l) he holds in his upraised hands. On the front of the base in a tabula ansata the following inscription:
CIMRM 1493L.H. 0.03-0.025.
Naturae dei / Prudens Primi / Antoni Rufi p(ublici) p(ortorii) / vil(ici) vic(arius).
Gurlitt in JOAI 1899, 92 and 95 No. 4 with fig.; MCC, 92 with fig.; Abramic, 166 No. 299 and fig. 1…