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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
[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).

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