Monumentum
Altar of Optimus Vitalis from Mithraeum I, Ptuj
Altar from Mithraeum I at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Deo invicto Mithrae by Optimus Vitalis, vicarius of Sabinus Veranus, vilicus of the publicum portorium.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1590 ↔ CIMRM 1491
Altar (H. 0.82 Br. 0.33–0.40 D. 0.42). Inv. No. XXXXIII.
Gurlitt in JOAI 1899, 95 No. 3 with fig.; MCC, 92, Abramić, 166 No. 228; CIL III 13454²⁶; ILS 4243; Dobo, No. 39.
L.H. 0.04–0.025.
D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / Optimus / Vitalis / Sabini Verani / p(ublii) p(ortorii) vil(ici) vic(arius) / v(otum) s(olvit).
Cf. P. Leber, Q(uintus) Sabinius Veranus, Zollpächter in Poetovio in Carinthia I, 145, 1955, 201ff. In CIL III 4015 = Mon. No. 1533 he is conductor portorii Illyrici. In general: A. Dobo, Publicum portorium Illyrici in AErt (S. III) I 1940, 144 ff.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
