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Carnuntum (Petronell-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.

Monumentum

Sandstone tauroctony relief from Petronell-Carnuntum

Sandstone relief of Mithras as bull-slayer, found at Petronell in 1932, with dog, serpent and scorpion, traces of polychromy preserved, now in the Museum Carnuntinum.

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Bronze fibula with lion-headed Aion from Carnuntum

Bronze fibula from Petronell-Carnuntum, depicting a standing lion-headed Aion.

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Mithras birth from Petronell

Only parts of the knees of Mithras, emerging from the rock, have been preserved from this monument of Petronell-Carnuntum, Austria.

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Sandstone petrogenesis from Carnuntum

Sandstone petrogenesis from Petronell-Carnuntum (Lower Austria), depicting Mithras emerging from the rock, preserved from the knees upwards.

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Mithraeum II of Carnuntum

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

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Mithraeum III of Carnuntum

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

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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.

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Tauroctony relief with corn-ear tail from Petronell

Marble tauroctony relief from Petronell, ancient Carnuntum in Pannonia Superior, with the bull's tail ending in corn-ears; no scorpion is depicted, and Cautes holds the upraised torch.

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Altar of Quintus Cottius Lalus from Carnuntum

Altar from Petronell, ancient Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Soli by Quintus Cottius Lalus.

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Altar of Lucius Aelius Leo from Carnuntum

Altar from Petronell, ancient Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Soli divino ex visu by Lucius Aelius Leo — possibly the same individual who dedicated a further altar identifying himself as a miles of Legio XIIII Gemina.

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Altar of Caius Rip- from Carnuntum

Small altar from Petronell, ancient Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Mithras (spelt Motre) by Caius Rip-, who made the altar as merited; the garbled spelling suggests a non-Latin speaker.

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Altar of Aurelius Vi- from Carnuntum

Altar from Petronell, ancient Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Aurelius, whose name is only partially preserved.

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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.

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Altar of Caius with Transitus dedication from Carnuntum

Altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to the Transitus — the Mithraic transit ritual — by Caius, an association also attested at Brigetio and Poetovio.

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Altar of Quintus Livinius Senecio from Carnuntum

Lost inscription from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Soli invicto deo by Quintus Livinius Senecio, veteran of Legio XIIII Gemina; dated to the second or third century.

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Altar of Ulpius Vitalis pancrestarius from Carnuntum

Votive altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae sacrum by Ulpius Vitalis pancrestarius — a term denoting an athlete or performer, possibly in the context of Mithraic initiation rites.

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Altar of Aurelius Exuperatus from Carnuntum

Sandstone altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, found near the theatre in 1890, dedicated to Deo Soli by Aurelius Exuperatus.

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Altar of Iulius Iulianus from Carnuntum

Sandstone altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Soli deo by Iulius Iulianus.

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Altar of Sacellus to Deo Soli invicto from Carnuntum

Small sandstone altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto by a dedicant whose name reads Sacellus; found in the Burgfeld in 1878.

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