Fitz Jenő (szerk.): Religions and Cults in Pannonia. Exhibiton an Székesfehérvár, Csók István Gallery 15 May - 30 September 1996 – Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei: A. sorozat 33. (1998)

181. Mithraic altar The white marble plinth with a profiled upper section bears a statue of Mithras. Mithras stands with his left leg forward, dragging the body of a slaughtered bull on its back. The plinth and the statue are worked from a single piece of marble. There is an inscription on the plinth: Transitu \ C(aius) Caecina | Calpurnius \ temp(lum) redemi(t) \ et restitu [i(t)]. - Second half of the 2nd century A.D. - H: 159 cm; W: 48 cm; Letter height: 5-3 cm. - 1st Mithraeum, Spodnja Hajdina, Ptuj (Poetovio) - PMP, Ace. no. RL 142. CIL III 14354; AU, 292. IL. 182. The birth of Mithras The marble base is carved as a rock with a snake wrapped around it. The body of the divine Mithras is born from it. The head and the attributes in the hands of the deity are missing. There is an inscription in a tabula ansata on the front of the plinth: Naturae dei | Prudens Primi \ Antoni Rufi p(ublici) p(ortorii) \ vil(ici) vic(arius). — Second half of the 2nd century A.D. - H: 97 cm; W: 46 cm. - 1st Mithraeum, Spodnja Hajdina, Ptuj (Poetovio) - PMP, Ace. no. RL 143. CIL III 14354; AU, 293. I.L. MITHRAEUM III - POETOVIO, XV. The Mithraeum III. at Zgornji Breg is the largest Mithraic temple in Poetovio. It is located amongst the houses of Zgornji Breg above the lower Drava terrace and the Studencnica stream. Viktor Skrabar found it in 1913 and also excavated it in cooperation with Mihovil Abramic in the same year. The mithraeum was built in the mid 3rd century A.D. Two construction phases were discovered during the excavations. The older temple area measured 11,2x6,85 m and was fronted by a large annex. The mithraeum was later enlarged, the annex was incorporated in the temple area and a new, larger annex was built in front of it. The central part of the temple was floored with slabs, whilst the two side areas had rammed clay floors. There were extensions on the western side of the mithraeum, which probably served as a meeting place and perhaps for the storage of ritual artefacts. The extensions on the eastern side were attributed to the temple of the Magnae Marris. The mithraeum was already protected by a building in 1913 and the monuments were presented at their place of discovery. 100