The New Mithraeum Database

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the upper part of Cautes with his torch raised.

Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Mithras killing the bull — head and most of the flying cloak lost — flanked by Cautopates holding the torch downward.

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, notable for a three-headed serpent and a dog attempting to lick the blood; the bull's tail ends in three corn-ears.

Inscription from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, recording that Sextus Vibius Hermes, Augustalis of the Colonia Ulpia Traiana Poetovionis, donated a silver signum with its base to Soli invicto Mithrae, with Lucius Vernasius Heraclida presiding as pater…

Marble stele from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, tapering towards the top and bearing a square hollow with five nail-holes designed to hold a small silver plaque — the plaque was removed, perhaps taken by the Mithraists themselves.

Inscription from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae for the welfare of Legio V Macedonica and Legio XIII Gemina Gallienarum by Flavius Aper, vir egregius praepositus — dated to the reign of Gallienus, AD 260–268…

Damaged marble relief from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving Cautopates with torch downward on the right and the outline of a standing Cautes on the other side, with a fragmentary inscription in the lower border.

Corner of a marble altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae for the welfare of persons whose names begin Atti- and Saturni-; the rest, including the dedicant, is lost.

Fragment of a large marble cornice from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving only the beginning of the name Iulian- from the inscription below.

Small votive altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an oblong hollow in the top, probably designed to hold a libation or ritual object.

Inscription from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Invicto Augusto sacrum by an imperial slave serving as hereditatum tabularius — an officer for death-duties — one of the rarer administrative titles attested in Mithraic epigraphy.

Barbara-stone pedestal from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with a hollow and three attachment holes in the top indicating that a votive object was originally fixed to it.

Three marble cornice fragments from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, bearing an inscription recording that the monument was elevated in the manner of Sol, in honour of Cautes and Cautopates.

Left marble relief fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the head of a torchbearer, probably Cautopates, beside remnants of Mithras's flying cloak.

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving a raven as part of a tauroctony scene.

Left upper corner of a marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with the dressed bust of Sol in radiate crown above a horizontal rim, beneath which the head of a torchbearer, probably Cautopates.

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the body of Cautopates; the upper head and both feet are lost.

Left upper corner of a marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Jupiter with the thunderbolt in his raised right hand, identified as a scene from the Battle against the Giants.

Small marble head in Phrygian cap from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio.

Very small marble head in Phrygian cap from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio.