CIMRM 1509 - Mithraeum II. Poetovio / Pettau / Ptuj, Slovenia

1509. Mithraeum II was found at Ptuj (Pettau) at a distance of 20 mtrs. south of Mithraeum I in 1901. The whole building and the complete inventary are in the Museum iu Ptuj. The Mithraeum itself has been reconstructed in smaller proportions. Abramic, Führer, 63ff and fig. 15. See fig. 385. The sanctuary (L. 13.40 Br. 7.30) has the normal division into a corridor (Br. 4.00) and two benches (H. 0.70 Br. 1.00) the surface of which is covered with loam. A stone wall with threshold seems to divide the whole construction into a small pronaos (1/3 of the whole) and the actual sanctuary. The same small stone wall is also built in the two benches. Before the west wall there is a construction (H. 0.80 Br. 2.35 D. 0.90) with a projecting part upon which the cultrelief rested. On the r. side of the corridor and partly built in the r. bench there is a waterbasin (H. 0.65 Br. 0.85-0.92) the inside of which has a revetment of marble slabs. The water could flow away through a canal. Against each bench there were about six trapezophores. One piece still complete (H. 0.62) is adorned with a paw. Abramic mentions (p. 70) the trapezophores also were adorned with lion's heads, but there are no traces of them.