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Monumentum

Altar of Caius Plotius Maro from Almus

Upper portion of a limestone altar from Kule-Mahata, ancient Almus in Moesia Superior, dedicated to the invictus — possibly but not certainly Mithras — by Caius Plotius Maro for himself and his family.
 
The New Mithraeum
28 May 2026

TNMM 2473 ↔ CIMRM 2239

The upper part of an altar in limestone (H. 0.28 Br. 0.255 D. 0.25), found at Kule-Mahata (district Lom). Sofia, National Museum.

CIL III 14411.

L.H. 0.02–0.05.

G(aius) Plotius Maro / aram invicto / posuit / [pr]o s[e et suis].

It is not definite that the invictus should be Mithras.

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