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  • Locus

    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.
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum II of Carnuntum

    The second temple devoted to Mithras in Carnuntum is situated besides a Jupiter's temple.

    TNMM190 – CIMRM 1681

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony relief of Carnuntum

    This relief found at Carnuntum represents Mithras slaughtering the bull, without the scorpion, in the sacred cave.

    TNMM523

  • Monumentum

    Altar to Petra Genetrix from Carnuntum

    Aelius Nigrinus dedicated this small altar in Carnuntum to the rock from which Mithras was born.

    TNMM722 – CIMRM 1674

    Petrae / Genetrici / P(ublius) Ael(ius) Nigri/nus sacerd(os) / v(otum) s(olvit).
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Flavius Verecundus from Carnuntum

    This monument to Mithras and Cautes (or Cautopates) was erected in Carnuntum by the centurion Flavius Verecundus of Savaria.

    TNMM723 – CIMRM 1671

    D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) C(aute ?) / T(itus) Flavius / Verecundus / Cl(audia) Savaria / (centurio) leg(ionis) XIIII / g(eminae) M(artiae) v(ictricis) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum I of Carnuntum

    According to the scarcely detailed design of von Sacken, the lay-out of the temple must have been nearly semi-circular.

    TNMM43 – CIMRM 1664

  • Monumentum

    Altar of Carnuntum by Sacidius Barbarus

    This altar bears the oldest known Latin inscription to the god Mithras, written Mitrhe.

    TNMM503 – CIMRM 1718

    Invicto Mitrhe / C. Sacidius Ba/rbarus [c(enturio)] leg(ionis) / XV Apol[linar(is)] / ex voto ....
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum of Fertőrákos

    The temple of Mithras in Fertorakos was constructed by soldiers from the Carnuntum legion at the beginning of the 3rd century AD.

    TNMM36

  • Monumentum

    Tauroctonia de Carnuntum (III ?)

    Of this great relief of Mithras slaying the bull only a few segments remain.

    TNMM192 – CIMRM 1683

    T(itus) Fl(avius) Viato[r] condi fe(cit)
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of Târgușor

    This limestone relief of Mithras killing the bull bears an inscription by a certain Flavius Horimos, consecrated in a 'secret forest' in Moesia.

    TNMM641 – CIMRM 2306, 2307

    Ὣριμος / πατὴ/ρ ἀνέ/θηκε/ν. Φλ(άουιος) Ὣριμος Φλ(αουίου) Μακέδονος οἰκονόμος κατ᾽ ἐπιταγήν / θεῷ ἀνεικήτῳ …
  • Monumentum

    Inscription by Propinquos of Carnuntum

    On this slab, Gaius Iulius Propinquos indicates that he made a wall of the Mithraeum at his own expense.

    TNMM493 – CIMRM 1693

    C(aius) Iul(ius) Propin/quos (sic) pariete(m) / ex voto / impensa sua.
  • Monumentum

    Tauroctony of St. Andrä vor dem Hagenthale

    The votive image was donated by a certain Verus for a mithraeum which was probably located in the hinterland of the Limes.

    TNMM315 – CIMRM 1423, 1424

    D(eus) I(nvictus) M(ithras) verus pro salute / Comacia(e) et com(magenorum) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) m(erito).
  • Syndexios

    Adiectus

    A slave of a certain Tiberius, he likely dedicated an altar to the invincible god Mithras in Carnuntum.
  • Mithraeum

    Mithraeum III of Carnuntum

    Mithraeum III found in the west part of Petronell near Hintausried in August 1894 by J. Dell and C. Tragau.

    TNMM191 – CIMRM 1682

  • Monumentum

    Lion of Carnuntum III

    Exceptional sculpture of a lion devouring a bull's head founded in 1894 in Carnuntum, Pannonia.

    TNMM495 – CIMRM 1690

  • Syndexios

    Publius Aelius Nigrinus

    Priest of Mithras who dedicated an altar to Petra Genetrix in Carnuntum.
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Carnuntum by the Augusti and Caesares

    Altar with Cautes and Cautopates dedicated to Sol Invictus Mithras as protector of the Tetrarchy in 3rd-century Carnuntum.

    TNMM524 – CIMRM 1697, 1698

    D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / fautori imperii sui / Iovii et Herculii / religiosissimi / Augusti et Caesares / sacrarium / restituerunt.
  • Monumentum

    Altar of Adiectus from Carnuntum

    There is no consensus as to whether the altar of the slave Adiectus from Carnuntum is dedicated to a Mithras genitor of light.

    TNMM753 – CIMRM 1676

    D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Adiec(tus) / ser(vus) T(iberii) C(laudii?) v ... / gen(itori) lum(inis) / v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).
  • Monumentum

    Felsgeburt des Mithras

    Mithras Petrogenitus, born from the rock, from the Mithraeum of Carnuntum III.

    TNMM237 – CIMRM 1687

  • Syndexios

    Titus Flavius Verecundus

    He was a centurion from Savaria, serving in Legio XIV Gemina based in Carnuntum.