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Poetovio (Ptuj)

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

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Mithraeum I of Ptuj

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

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Altar with inscription and symbolic figures from Ptuj

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.

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Mithraeum II of Ptuj

Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj at a distance of 20 m south of the Mithraeum I in 1901.

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Mithraeum III of Ptuj

Mithraeum III in Ptuj was built in two periods: the original walls were made of pebbles, while the extension of a later period was made of brick.

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Mithraeum V of Ptuj

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

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Mithraeum IV at Ptuj

Fourth Mithraic sanctuary discovered at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, at Zgornji Breg in 1937; the sanctuary (c.14 × 7 m) is oriented west–east with the standard corridor and bench division, an altar before the cult niche, and a water-basin in the pronaos.

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Cautopates base with weathered inscription from Ptuj

White marble base from Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, bearing a weathered inscription and the remnants of a downward-pointing torch, identifying the statue as Cautopates.

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Inscription of Aurelius Iustinianus from Ptuj

This inscription probably belonged to the fourth mithraeum of Poetovio and records the restoration of a Mithraic temple by the dux Aurelius Iustinianus.

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Relief fragment from Ptuj

Several Mithraic scenes, including Mithras with Saturn, Mithras with Sol and Mithras' Ascension, are depicted on this fragment of a relief from Ptuj.

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Mithraic vignettes from Ptuj

These fragments of a cult relief of Mithras were found at the Mithraeum II of Ptuj, Slovenia.

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Mithras rock-birth of Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Cautes and Cautopates attend the birth of Mithras from the rock in the Petrogenia of the third Mithraeum of Ptuj.

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Tauroctony on altar of Ptuj

Remarkable fragmentary sculpture of Mithras slaying the bull on an inscribed altar found in Mithraeum III at Ptuj.

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Mithraeum IV of Ptuj

A probable Mithraic sanctuary at Poetovio, identified by Vermaseren as the so-called Mithraeum IV on the basis of four associated inscriptions.

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Altar with Sol from Ptuj

This altar, found in the 3rd mithraeum of Ptuj, bears an inscription and a relief of Sol and a person with a cornucopia.

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Fragmentary altar from Mithraeum IV, Ptuj

Fragment of a marble altar from Mithraeum IV at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving only the opening of a dedication to Deo invicto Mithrae.

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Altar of Aurelius Aurelianus from Mithraeum IV, Ptuj

Marble altar from Mithraeum IV at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Aurelius Aurelianus.

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Altar of Titus Flavius Aper decurio from Mithraeum IV, Ptuj

Marble altar from Mithraeum IV at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Titus Flavius Aper, decurio of the Colonia Poetovionis.

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Altar of Candidus from Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Marble altar fragment from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by a dedicant whose name is partially preserved as -us Candidus.

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Altar of Aurelius Victor miles from Mithraeum III, Ptuj

Marble altar from Mithraeum III at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Aurelius Victor, miles of Legio XIII Gemina.

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