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Altar of Caius with Transitus dedication from Carnuntum

Altar from Carnuntum, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to the Transitus — the Mithraic transit ritual — by Caius, an association also attested at Brigetio and Poetovio.
 
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27 May 2026

TNMM 1738 ↔ CIMRM 1722

Altar (H. 0.56 Br. 0.33–0.26 D. 0.29–0.235). Vienna (Wien), Kunsthistorisches Museum (Inv. No. III, 17).

Sacken-Kenner, 64 No. 51a; CIL III 4444 = 11092; Walzing, Corp., III, 109 No. 347; Betz in JOAI XXIX, 1935 (Beibl.) 327 No. 503; Vorbeck, Militärinschr., 90 No. 291.

L.H. 0.03–0.04.

Tra[n]osito / C(aius) Cas(sius?) Apro/nianus / c(ustos) a(rmorum) in ho(norem) col(legii) / v(otum) s(olit) l(aetus) l(ibens) m(erito).

Tranosito possibly transito, cf. Brigetio No. 1737.

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