The New Mithraeum Database in Slovenia

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

TNMM185 – CIMRM 1487

This relief of Mithras tauroctonus and other finds were discovered in 1845 in Ruše, where a Mithraeum probably existed.

TNMM710 – CIMRM 1447, 1448

Ruše is a small town in northeastern Slovenia.

This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.

TNMM707 – CIMRM 1591, 1592

These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

TNMM680 – CIMRM 1510

This inscription belongs to the 4th mithraeum found in the modern town of Ptuj.

TNMM644 – CIMRM 1614

A certain Blastia or Blastianus made a dedication to Mithras and Silvanus on an altar in Emona, Pannonia.

TNMM635 – CIMRM 1463

Emona or Aemona was a Roman castrum, located in the area where the navigable Nauportus River came closest to Castle Hill, serving the trade between the city’s settlers – colonists from the northern part of Roman Italy – and the rest of the empire.

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

TNMM255 – CIMRM 1584, 1585

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

TNMM391 – CIMRM 1579

According to Hitzinger remnants of animal bones were found in front of the relief of the Mithraeum at Rozanec.

TNMM37 – CIMRM 1481

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

TNMM204 – CIMRM 1593, 1594

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

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

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

TNMM581

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

TNMM316 – CIMRM 1494, 1495

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.

TNMM413 – CIMRM 1496, 1497

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

TNMM187 – CIMRM 1509

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.

TNMM60 – CIMRM 1578