Altar from Intercisa

TNMM 1803 ↔ CIMRM 1827

Plate (H. 0.45 Br. 0.56 D. 0.25) with traces of red painting and with an ivy-leaf in the middle of the third line. Found on the site of the Castra in the field of A. Fischli. Budapest, National Museum (Inv. No. 22/1927, 1).

Barkóczi, Intercisa, 336 and Pl. LXXX, 8; Paulovics in AÉrt 78, 1951, 21ff and Pl. X, 3. Mócsy in Antik Tanulmányok V 1958, 91ff.

Iudicio / sacramenti / cultores.

Paulovics is of the opinion that we have to do with a building-inscription: "es handelt sich um eine Bauinschrift wohl des Lokals, wo der Fahneneid geleistet wurde, wo die signa aufbewahrt wurden, also des Fahnenheiligtums". He means that iudicio = iussu. But the whole terminology of the inscription is either Mithraic or underwent a strong Mithraic influence (see epigraphical index s.v.).

Middle of the third cent. A.D.