In 1952, a small altar with a cursive inscription raised to Silvanus Pantheus and
dated from the first half of the 2nd century was found at Albertfalva. The Pantheus
epitheton is known from Aquincum. According to its analogues from the territory of
the Empire and especially from Italy, this epithet belonged to a fertility deity called
Liber-Sivanus. The person who raised this altar (and who was not an autochthonous
inhabitant but a liberated slave or a slave) probably practised an Italian cult, which
later fused with the honour of the local fertility deity in the Silvanus–Diana cult.
