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| maintainer   = Janez Premk
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{{Infobox
| name                = Povoden Museum, Ptuj
| localname           = Povodnov muzej, Ptuj
| street              = Slovenski trg
| town                = SI-2250 Ptuj
| telephone           = 386 (0) 2 748 0350
| email               = muzej-ptuj.uprava@siol.net
| website             = http://www.pok-muzej-ptuj.si
| proprietor          = Ptuj Regional Museum
| contacts = {{Contact
| name                = Aleš Arih
| role                = Director
| email               = ales.arih@pok-muzej-ptuj.si
}}
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The collection [[Povoden Museum, Ptuj]] was founded in [[established::1830]] by Simon Povoden, who determined that collected classical stone memorials should be built into the inner walls of the municipal tower.
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== History ==
Slovenski trg in the centre of Ptuj is the scene of an open air lapidary collection, the oldest in Slovenia. The collection consists of pieces of civil and military tombstones, urns, sacrificial altars, relief votive slabs and ashlars. The northern wall of the tower contains, among others, the military tombstone of Gaius Rufius, a soldier of the XIII Gemina legion, and that of Gaius Cornelius Verus, a veteran of the II Adiutrix legion. Six memorials were built into the southern wall of the tower. Among them are a sacrificial altar, dedicated to Jupiter and decorated at the top with a Norican-Pannonian volute, and the tombstone of Marcus Ulpius Cutius and his family.

== See also ==
* [[Regional Museum Ptuj]]
* [[Dominican Monastery at Ptuj]]
* [[Mithras Shrine III in Zgornji Breg]]
* [[Mithras Shrine I in Spodnja Hajdina]]



[[Category:Monuments and sites]]
[[Category:Museums]]