Monumentum
Altar from Lopata
White marble altar from Lopata in the Kumanovo district, Moesia Superior, associated with possible Mithraic sanctuary remains at the find-spot.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2450 ↔ CIMRM 2207
White marble altar (H. 0.77 Br. 0.28 D. 0.28) found at Lopata in the district Kumanovo. According to Vulić there are remnants of a Mithraeum in the place of discovery. Skoplje, Archaeological Museum.
Vulić in RA (S. 6) I, 1933, 191; Kocić in BSSS 1933, 9f and figs. 11–13; Bulic in Spomenik LXXV, 1933 No. 155.
In the front an inscription. On the l. side naked Hercules fighting the lion; on the r. side a club. On all three sides a rosette.
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
