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Monumentum

Altar to Petra Genetrix from Carnuntum

Aelius Nigrinus dedicated this small altar in Carnuntum to the rock from which Mithras was born.
 
The New Mithraeum
3 Nov 2023
Updated on Nov 2023
Six altars in sandstone were erected in a semi-circle, four of which have inscriptions (Arneth in Sb. Akad. Wien XI, 1853, 33lf; v. Sacken, Taf. I, 2-4 and 340; Arneth, 332, 1; 333, 3):

Altar with volutes (H. 0.52 Br. 0.24-0.27 D. 0.21). Inv. No. III, 80. Traces of red colour in the letters.

CIL III 4424; MMM II 369.

L.H. 0.02-0.03.

Petrae / genetrici / P. Ae(lius) Nigri(nus sacerd(os) / v(otum) s(olvit).

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