Monumentum
Temple restoration inscription of Apollonides from Lopata
Inscription from Lopata, Moesia Superior, recording that Apollonides, imperial slave and scrutator of the statio Lamud, restored a Mithraic temple that had collapsed through age at his own expense; dated to the consulship of Gentianus and Bassus, AD 211.
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026
TNMM 2451 ↔ CIMRM 2208
[Deo] inv(i)c(to) [pro] / sal(ute) Aug(ustorum) / n(ostrorum) templum / vetustate / dilapsum inpendio / suo restituit / Apollonides eor(undem) / ser(vus) sc(rutator) stat(ionis) Lamud / et Gentiano et Bass(o) co(n)[s(ulibus)].
A.D. 211.
The Augusti are Caracalla and Geta.
It is not certain whether the invictus is Hercules or Mithras, but the altar may have been erected in a Mithraeum by Apollonides (see the following No. in honour of Mithras).
References
- Vermaseren, Maarten Jozef (1956) Corpus Inscriptionum et Monumentorum Religionis Mithriacae
