Altar of Aelius Valerianus from Illmitz

Dr. A. J. Ohrenberger, Ein Weihalter aus Illmitz (Bez. Neusiedl am See) in Burgenländische Heimatblätter XXII, 1960, 3ff and fig.; (cf. PAR 1960, 1f) publishes an altar in limestone (H. 0.60 Br. 0.34 D. 0.25) with inscription (L.H. 0.033-0.025). Eisenstadt, Burgenländisches Landesmuseum (Inv. No. 24.637).

Second century A.D.

D(eo) i(nvicto) M(ithrae) / P(ublius) Aelius) Vale/rianus miles) / leg(ionis) XIIII g(eminae) s/trator c/o(n)s(ularis) v(otum) s(olvit) l(ibens) l(aetus) m(erito).

In Illmitz there probably was a Mithraeum, as already before World War I a relief as a bullkiller…