The New Mithraeum Database

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

Hyacinthus, like Hermadio, seems to have been one of the profets of Mithraism in the Dacian region.

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

TNMM581

From Slovenia

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

TNMM185 – CIMRM 1487

From Slovenia

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

From Slovenia

Part of the finds from the fifth Mithraeum of Ptuj is kept in the Hotel Mitra in the modern city.

TNMM565

From Slovenia

Servus of a certain Primus, Prudentus offered a sculpture of Mithras rock-birth in Poetovio.

Clarissimus knight and legate born in Poetovio that helped to disseminate the cult of Mithras in the African provinces.

Hermadio's inscriptions have been found in Dacian Tibiscum and Sarmizegetusa, as well as in Rome.

Scrutator of the customs of the Poetovio station, Theodorus erected an altar to Mithras following a vision.