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Mithras in Pannonia superior

Pannonia superior preserves one of the richest frontier corpora of Mithraic evidence along the middle Danube.

The Mithraic material documented in Pannonia superior is closely associated with military communities, urban settlements and frontier infrastructure established along the Danubian limes. The province played a major role in the expansion and consolidation of Mithraic cults within the Roman frontier system.

Mithraic monuments of Pannonia superior

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Places in Pannonia superior

 

Rodine

Rožanec is a settlement north of the town of Črnomelj in the White Carniola area of southeastern Slovenia.

 

Aequinoctium

Aequinoctium occupied an important position along the Danubian frontier communications routes.

 

Atrans-Trojana

Atrans stood near the important Alpine crossing routes linking Italy with the Danubian provinces.

 

Brigetio

Brigetio, which became Szőny, was an independent town until 1977, when it was incorporated into Komárom. The Roman legion Legio I Adiutrix was stationed here from 86 AD until the middle of the 5th century.

 

Carnuntum

Carnuntum was a Roman legionary fortress and headquarters of the Pannonian fleet from 50 AD. After the 1st century, it was capital of the Pannonia Superior province. It also became a large city of 50,000 inhabitants.

 

Eisenstadt

Eisenstadt belongs to the western Pannonian region historically connected with the Roman frontier zone.

 

Illmitz

Illmitz is a market town in the district of Neusiedl am See in Burgenland in Austria.

 

Modrič

Modrič lies within the Sava basin region historically associated with the western Pannonian provinces.

 

Neviodunum

Neviodunum developed into an important settlement along the Sava river communications corridor.

 

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.

 

Poljčane

Poljčane belongs to the southeastern Alpine region historically linked with Roman Pannonia.

 

Potz Neusiedl

The Neusiedl lake region formed part of the western frontier landscape of Roman Pannonia.

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Inscriptions from Pannonia superior

Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares

D[eo] S[oli] i[nvicto] M[ithrae] / fautori imperii sui / Iovii et Herculii / religiosissimi / Augusti et Caesares / sacrarium / restituerunt.
To the god Sol Invictus Mithras, the protector of their empire, the most devout followers of Jupiter and Hercules, the Augusti and Caesares, restored this shrine.

Tauroctony relief of Fertőrákos

---] fecit inpendio suo
[—] made (this) at his own expense

Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, 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

Great Tauroctony of Carnuntum Mithraeum III

T[itus] Fl[avius] Viato[r] condi fe[cit].
Titus Flavius Viator had (this) built.

Mithraeum of Rožanec

D[eo] i[nvicto] M[ithrae] / d[omino] P[ublius] P[ublii] Aelii Nepos et / Proculus et Firminus / pro salute sua suorumque.
Mithras invincible god / to the master Publius Publius Aelius Nepos and / Proculus and Firminus / for the safety of their people and their relatives.

Altar to Petra Genetrix from Carnuntum

Petrae / Genetrici / P[ublius] Ael[ius] Nigri/nus sacerd[os] / v[otum] s[olvit].
To the Petra Genetrix, Publius Aelius Nigrinus, priest, has fulfilled his vow.

Mithras rock-born from Ptuj

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.

Flavius Aper altar (CIMRM 1584)

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 Mithras, for the salvation of our pious and happy master Gallienus, the invincible emperor, Flavius Aper, a remarkable man [= knight], willingly and justly.

Tauroctony from Stixneusiedl

D[eo] In[victo] M[ithrae] S[oli] pro s[alute] Aug[ustorum] nn[ostrorum] L[ucii] Sep[timii] / Valerius et Valerianus sex[viri] col[oniae] K[arnunti] / v[otum] s[olverunt] l[ibentes] m[erito].
To the god Sol Invictus Mithras, for the well-being of our Augusti Lucius Septimius, Valerius and Valerianus, the six-men of the colony of Carnuntum willingly and deservedly fulfilled their vow.

Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from 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 of Carnuntum by Sacidius Barbarus

Invicto Mitrhe / C. Sacidius Ba/rbarus [c[enturio]] leg[ionis] / XV Apol[linar[is]] / ex voto ....
To the invincible Mithras, Caius Sacidius Barbarus, centurion of the XV Apollinaris legion, upon a vow.

Tauroctony from Ruše

M[arcus] Porcius / Verus / proc[urator] Aug[usti] / me / pos/uit.
Marcus Porcius Verus, Procurator of the Emperor [or Augustus], placed.

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