Altar of Tihaljina

This altar, found in Grude, near Tihaljina in Bosnia and Herzegovina, dates from the 2nd century AD, within the Antonine period. It bears an inscription dedicated to Mithras and the ’genii sacrorum Augustorum’ by a certain Pinnes, who served as ’immunis miles’ in the Cohors I Belgarum. The presence in Dalmatia of this cohort, composed mainly of ’peregrini’, underlines the integration of non-citizens in the Roman military.

D(eo) I(nvicto) M(ithrae) a[c Ge]/niis sac[r(orum)] / Augusto[r(um)] / Rus(---) Pin(nes) mi/les / co(hortis) prim(ae) / Bel(garum) immunis / libens merito / posuit…