The New Mithraeum Database

Fragmentary inscription from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, recording a dedication to Deo invicto Mithrae by Titus Flavius Restutus, IIIIvir Augustalis of the Colonia Poetovionis.

Inscription from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae for the welfare of Flavius Iovinus, who had vowed the gift after witnessing the birth of the god; dated to the consulship of Peregrinus and Aemilianus, AD 244.

Inscription on the column base from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae for the welfare of the Emperors and Geta Caesar by Salvianus, contrascrip of the statio Atrantiana; Geta's name was subsequently erased.

Marble column from the entrance of Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, serving as a statue base, its front decorated with a kantharus between panthers and vine tendrils; the inscription names Salvianus, contrascrip of the statio Atrantiana.

Fragmentary marble inscription from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving only the abbreviated dedication to Deo Soli invicto Mithrae.

Right portion of a marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving standing Cautes with upraised torch and the bust of Luna above him.

Marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, distinguished by the bull represented with fully stretched legs; Cautopates is shown resting his head on his hand in a pensive posture.

Right lower corner of a marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the border of the grotto and, outside it, Luna in a two-horse chariot holding a whip; only the horses' heads are shown.

Marble relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the greater part of Cautes in high relief; the head, most of the right arm, and legs below the knee are lost.

Left portion of a primitive marble relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the upper part of a figure in Oriental dress holding a downward torch and the bust of Sol in the upper corner.

White marble tauroctony relief from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, depicting Mithras in Oriental dress killing the bull with a girdle and the raven perched on the grotto's border.

Marble tauroctony relief fragment from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, preserving the central scene with the leaping dog, serpent, and scorpion; the bull's body is encircled by two girdles.

Duplicate inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, set up by Primitivos in memory of Hyacinthus; a companion piece to no. 1501, suggesting that the two inscriptions flanked the cult niche.

Inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, set up by Primitivos, contrascrip of the imperial procurator Caius Antonius Rufus, in memory of Hyacinthus — probably the founder of the sanctuary.

White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, with an inscription and the preserved foot and lower garment of a Cautes statue.

Inscription from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Petrae genetrici ex viso by Felix, vicarius of Prudens, slave of Antonius Rufus, vilicus of the publicum portorium Illyricum — one of several Mithraic dedications by this household.

White marble base from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, bearing a dressed bust of Sol on the left lateral face and an inscription recording a dedication related to the Mithraic transit ritual.

Inscription from Sisak, ancient Siscia, dedicated to Iovi optimo maximo, Soli invicto, and the Genius loci by Aurelius Antiocianus; the Mithraic character is uncertain.

Fragment of a small altar from Ljubljana, ancient Emona in Pannonia Superior, preserving a dedication to Invicto Mithrae by a dedicant whose name ends in -quartus; the Mithraic attribution is not entirely certain.

Weathered marble tauroctony relief in two fragments from Ruše, Noricum, depicting the bull-slaying with only the dog visible, flanked by two torchbearers both holding their torches upraised; no Sol or Luna.