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Monumentum

Transitus altar from Brigetio

Altar from Brigetio, Pannonia Superior, dedicated to the Transitus — the Mithraic transit ritual — paralleled at Carnuntum and Poetovio.
 
The New Mithraeum
27 May 2026
Fragment of a relief (H. 0.09 Br. 0.07 D. 0.03) from Brigetio. Komárno Museum. Dr. A. Točík from Nitra-Hrad kindly writes me that the monument seems to have been transported to another Museum.Nagy in BpR XV, 1950, 114f and fig. 9.The central scene of Mithras as a bullkiller is surrounded by a laurel wreath. Only the figure of Cautes (r) is preserved; he holds an arch in his l.h. Outside the wreath is the damaged scene of Mithras' birth from the rock with upraised hands. Underneath him a figure in Oriental dress with slightly outstretched hands. He is represented frontally.

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