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Poetovio

The Romans controlled Poetovium until the 1st century BC. It became the base camp of the Legio XIII Gemina, where they built a castrum.

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  • Vista frontal del edificio construido sobre las ruinas en 1913

    Vista frontal del edificio construido sobre las ruinas en 1913
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  • Mithraeum I of Ptuj, general view

    Mithraeum I of Ptuj, general view
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  • Vista interior del Mithraeum I, Ptuj

    Vista interior del Mithraeum I, Ptuj
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  • Plan of Mithraeum I of Ptuj

    Plan of Mithraeum I of Ptuj
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  • Petrogenia del Mithraeum I, Ptuj

    Petrogenia del Mithraeum I, Ptuj
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  • Petrogenesis and two aras devoted to Mithras.

    Petrogenesis and two aras devoted to Mithras. 

  • Petrogenia del Mitreo III de Ptuj

    Petrogenia del Mitreo III de Ptuj 

  • Frontal and left side of Ptuj altar

    Frontal and left side of Ptuj altar
    Ptuj Regional Museum 

  • Frontal view of Ptuj altar

    Frontal view of Ptuj altar
    CIMRM 

  • Lateral view of Ptuj altar

    Lateral view of Ptuj altar
    CIMRM 

  • Lateral view of Ptuj altar

    Lateral view of Ptuj altar
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  • Front view

    Front view
    Ubi Erat Lupa 

  • Mithras carrying the bull of Ptuj

    Mithras carrying the bull of Ptuj
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  • Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj

    Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj
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  • Altar from Ptuj (left side)

    Altar from Ptuj (left side)
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  • Altar from Ptuj (left side)

    Altar from Ptuj (left side)
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  • Altar from Ptuj (left side)

    Altar from Ptuj (left side)
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  • Mithras killing the bull on altar. Mithraeum III of Ptuj

    Mithras killing the bull on altar. Mithraeum III of Ptuj
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  • Mithras killing the bull, detail. Mithraeum III of Ptuj

    Mithras killing the bull, detail. Mithraeum III of Ptuj
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  • Inscription on altar. Mithraeum III of Ptuj

    Inscription on altar. Mithraeum III of Ptuj
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  • Altar by Hermadio of Poetovio

    Altar by Hermadio of Poetovio
    Ptuj - Pokrajnski Muzej, Foto: Ortolf Harl 2013 November 

  • Altar by Hermadio of Poetovio

    Altar by Hermadio of Poetovio
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Mithraic monuments of Poetovio

 

Mithraeum III of Ptuj

Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.

CIMRM 1578

 

Mithraeum I of Ptuj

The Mithraeum I of Ptuj contains the foundation, altars, reliefs and cult imagery found in it.

CIMRM 1487

 

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

The sculpture includes a serpent climbing the rock from which Mithras is born.

CIMRM 1492

 

Mithraeum II of Ptuj

Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.

CIMRM 1509

 

Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

CIMRM 1593

 

Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

The altar of Ptuj depicts Mithras and Sol on the front and the water miracle on the right side.

CIMRM 1584

 

Consecration for Jupiter and Hercules

This marble relief was found in a Mithraeum in Ptuj.

 

Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj

The sculpture of Mithras carrying the bull includes an inscription on its base.

CIMRM 1494

 

Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj

This altar from Ptuj, present-day Poetovio, is decorated with various Mithraic animals such as a tortoise, a cock and a crow and other objects.

CIMRM 1496

 

Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj

Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.

CIMRM 1589

 

Mithraeum V of Ptuj

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

 

Altar by Hermanio of Poetovio

A certain Hermanio has been identified in the dedication of several monuments in different cities in Dacia and even in Rome.

Inscriptions of Poetovio

Naturae dei / Prudens Primi / Antoni Rufi p(ublici) p(ortorii) / vil(ici) vic(arius).
To the birth of God. Prudentus, under the management of Primus, caretaker of the public customs office (tenant) Antonius Rufus.

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro sal(ute) officialium Apri prae/positi leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) et XIII gem(inae) / Galli(enarum).
To the invincible god Sol Mithras, for the salvation of the members of the administrative office (officiales) of [Flavius] Aper, commander of the Macedonian legions V and XIII Gemina Galliens

Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj

D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro sal(ute) d(omini) n(ostri) Gallieni p(ii) f(elicis) / invicti Aug(usti) Fl(avius) Aper v(ir) e(gregius) l(ibens) m(erito).
To the invincible god Sol Mithra, for the salvation of our master Gallien Pious Happy, the invincible emperor, Flavius Aper, remarkable man (=knight), willingly and justly

Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

Transitu / C(aius) Caecina / Calpurnius / temp(lum) redemi(t) et restitu(it).
For the Transitus, Caius Caecina Calpurnius bought back the temple and restored it.

Mithras taurophorus of Ptuj

Invict(o) Mithrae / et Transitu dei / Theodorus p(ublici) p(ortorii) / scrut(ator) stat(ionis) Poet(ovionensis) / ex visu.
To the invincible Mithras and for the passage (transitus) of the god, Theodorus, scrutator of the customs of the Poetovio station, following a vision.

Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj

D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro (sa) salute /canaliclari / et actariorum /et codicarior(um) / et librariorum / leg(ionum) V M(acedonicae) et XIII g(eminae) / Gallienarum.

Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj

Cauti // pro salute Fl(avi) / Hermadionis / et Aviti Syriac(i) / et filiorum / Felix libert(us)

Altar by Hermanio of Poetovio

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