Sremska Mitrovica
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A beneficiarii consularis post here policed road and tax traffic along the lower Sava from Trajan's reign onward. Excavators uncovered 84 votive altars in a single sanctuary in 1988, the largest cache of beneficiarius inscriptions found anywhere in the empire. Soldiers detached from the governor's staff at Sirmium dedicated most of the stones to Jupiter for a safe tour of duty. The station anchored security on Pannonia Inferior's busiest river corridor.
In ancient writing
- AE 1994, 1418, votive altar 2nd–3rd century CE
One of more than eighty beneficiarius altars unearthed at the Sirmium statio in 1988 — the largest single cache of beneficiarii dedications ever found — this one set up by a beneficiarius consularis to Jupiter and the Genius loci.
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