Monumentum
Mithraeum of Ptuj I
The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.
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25 Apr 2010
Updated on 17 Jan 2022
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In the western part of Roman Poetoviona, in today's Spodnja Hajdina, the oldest Mithras shrine in the provinces of the Upper Danube was discovered by Wilhelm Gurlitt, an archaeologist from Graz, Austria, between 1898 and 1899. The shrine was immediately after having been unearthed covered by a protective house. Dedications show that the shrine was built in the middle of the 2nd century by administrators of the Illyrian customs based in Poetoviona. The shrine was partly dug into a gentle slope and covered by interwoven branches of a willow.
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Data
- Location
Poetovio, Pannonia superior (Pannonia) (Poetovio), Ptuj (Slovenia) - Latitude and longitude 15.839818,46.413452
- Current location
Spodnja Hajdina Ptuj (Slovenia) - Type
- Dimensions W. 570 D. 570 cm
- Dating 2nd century
- Discovery date 1898
- Canonical URI
mithraeum.eu/monument/185
- CIMRM 1487
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