CIMRM 1584 - Altar with water-miracle, Ptuj (Poetovio), Slovenia.

CIMRM entry

1584. White marble altar (H. 1.12 Br. 0.63 D. 0.54) found near 3. Abramic, 178f No. 241 and fig. 125; RA (S. 6) VIII, 1936, 265 No. 53; Schmid, Südsteiermark, Graz 1925, 17 and Pl. II; Schmid in BRGK XV, 1923-24, 223 fig. 17; Mostra4, 720 No. 52; Ferri, Arte Dan., 198 fig. 213; Vulic in Bull. Ac. Serbe I, 1935,202; AIJ, I 146 No. 313 and fig. See figs. 402- 404. On the front standing Mithras in Oriental dress offers to Sol over a burning altar the dagger to which small pieces of meat are speared. Above the meat the raven is flying in order to have a peck at it. In his l.h. Mithras held a large and long object and on the floor before his feet there is a club-shaped object, probably a piece of meat. Sol wears a long shoulder-cape and his head is surrounded by a crown with six rays. On the side of the altar Mithras is shooting water from a rock before which a person kneels with outstretched hands. Another person embraces Mithras' knees. On the l. side a bow, a quiver and a dagger. In the four upper corners a ram's head. Between the two heads on the front there is an inscription: 1585. L.H. 0.025 D(eo) S(oli) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / pro sal(ute) d(omini) n(ostri) Gallieni p(ii) f(elicis) / invicti Aug(usti) Fl(avius) Aper v(ir) e(gregius) l(ibens) m(erito).