Monumentum
Altar of Epictetus and Viator to Fons Perennis from Mithraeum II, Ptuj
Marble altar with akroteria from Mithraeum II at Ptuj, ancient Poetovio, dedicated to Fonti perenni by Epictetus and Viator, vicarii of Quintus Sabinius Veranus, vilicus of the publicum portorium.
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
TNMM 1622 ↔ CIMRM 1533
Marble altar with akroteria, found near the pit of the sanctuary (H. 0.65 Br. 0.20 D. 0.15). Inv. No. 162.
CIL III 15184²⁴; Abramić, 68 No. 56.
L.H. 0.015–0.02.
Fonti / perenni / Epictetus / et Viator / Servandi / Q(uinti) Sabini Verani / t(ertiae?) p(artis?) c(onductoris) p(ublici) p(ortorii) vilici / vicari.
Q. Sabinius Veranus is also mentioned in Mithraeum I (cf. No. 1491); Epictetus and Viator are representants of Servandus, who was a slave of Veranus. See P. Leber, Q. Sabinius Veranus, Zollpächter in Poetovio in Carinthia I, 145, 1955, 201ff.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
