State of preservation:
fragmented, the monument being reused in the modern era for decorating the wall of a house in Deta locality (Timiș County);
Dimensions:
40 x 45 x 26 cm, h (letters) = 7 cm;
Description:
the altar is not large and has no frame. The text contains many abstract abbreviations and leaves room for discussion about the correct reading of the inscription;
Inscription:
I (ovi) O (ptimo) M (aximo) / I (unoni) R (eginae) M (inervae) T (erra) M (atri) / C (aius) Kaniniu [s] / Sabinianu [s] / d ( ecurio) c (oloniae) M (ursae) II vir / …… Literary translation: To Jupiter the Most Good and Great, Iunona Regina, Minerva, Terrei Mater, Caius Kaninius Sabinianus, decurion of the colony (member of the city council) Mursa, duumvir (mayor of the city)
Place of discovery:
the monument was discovered in a secondary position, it belongs to the category of "wandering stones";
Observations, dating:
the dating of the inscription is wide (2nd - 3rd century AD) and the text according to the abbreviated form of writing has good analogies to Mursa (Lower Pannonia);
Place of storage:
Banat National Museum Timisoara no.inv: IV 6359;
Bibliography and databases:
Const. C. Petolescu, Latin Inscriptions from Dacia, Romanian Academy Publishing House, Bucharest, 2005, pp. 100-101 (no. 175); UEL 15187; HD 044778; AE 1982, 00834
