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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
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.

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