Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj
TNMM 644 ↔ CIMRM 1614
Templum dei Sol(is) inv(icti) Mit(hrae) / Aure[(ius)] Iusti/nianus v(ir) p(erfectissimus) / dux / labefa/ctatum re/stituit.
“ducem intellige Pannoniae primae et Norici ripensis” (Mommsen).
In Poetovio, in Pannonia Superior, at the beginning of the 4th century, the dux of Pannonia Prima et Noricum Ripense left us this inscription, in which he claims to have built a temple to Sol invictus Mithras. The temple has survived to the present day under the name of Mithraeum IV de Ptuj.
CIL III 4039
References
CIL III 4039; MMM II No. 354. CIL 03, 04039; CIMRM 1614; W. Gurlitt, JŒAI (Beibl.) 2, 1899, 100; P. Selem, Les religions orientales dans la Pannonie romaine. Partie en Yougoslavie (Leiden 1980) 142, Nr. 111. (B); J. Fitz, Die Verwaltung Pannoniens in der Römerzeit (Budapest 1993) 1268, Nr. 905.
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
- Bricault; Roy (2021) Les cultes de Mithra dans l'Empire Romain.
