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White marble altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, decorated below the inscription with the dressed bust of Cautopates, a palm between two ram's heads above, and busts of Mithras on both lateral faces.
Duplicate inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, set up by Primitivos in memory of Hyacinthus; a companion piece to no. 1501, suggesting that the two inscriptions flanked the cult niche.
White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an inscription and the preserved legs, garment, and torch of a Cautopates statue.
Inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, set up by Primitivos, contrascrip of the imperial procurator Caius Antonius Rufus, in memory of Hyacinthus — probably the founder of the sanctuary.
White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an inscription and the preserved foot and lower garment of a Cautes statue.
Inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Cautes sacrum by Venulus, slave of Aponius Ingenuus.
White marble votive altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, distinguished by a dressed bust of Cautes emerging from foliage below the inscription — an unusual iconographic feature for an altar.
Altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Optimus Vitalis, vicarius of Sabinus Veranus, vilicus of the publicum portorium.
Inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Petrae genetrici ex viso by Felix, vicarius of Prudens, slave of Antonius Rufus, vilicus of the publicum portorium Illyricum — one of several Mithraic dedications by this household.
White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, bearing a dressed bust of Sol on the left lateral face and an inscription recording a dedication related to the Mithraic transit ritual.
Marble altar with akroteria from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Invicto Mithrae by Festus, vicarius of Primus, vilicus of the publicum portorium.
Fragment of a small altar from Ljubljana, ancient Emona in Pannonia Superior, preserving a dedication to Invicto Mithrae by a dedicant whose name ends in -quartus; the Mithraic attribution is not entirely certain.
Weathered marble tauroctony relief in two fragments from Ruše, Noricum, depicting the bull-slaying with only the dog visible, flanked by two torchbearers both holding their torches upraised; no Sol or Luna.
Marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, showing a grotto scene in which Cautopates holds the torch downward against the rocky ground and supports his head with his left hand in a pensive attitude; the upper left corner preserves a bust of Sol.
Small marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, badly weathered, depicting the bull-slaying in a grotto-like niche with cross-legged torchbearers on bases.
Small marble tauroctony relief from Ruše, Noricum, depicting Mithras killing the bull in a grotto, notable for the unusually elongated neck of the bull; dog and serpent approach the wound, and the raven perches above.
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 Romans controlled Poetovium until the 1st century BC. It became the base camp of the Legio XIII Gemina, where they built a castrum.
Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.
