Csopak
In the area of the so-called stone tomb hill on the NW shore of Lake Balaton lies an extensive building of the Roman era. Within its walls a stone, with the inscription DIANAE AVG SAC, was discovered. The majority of contemporary buildings and wine cellars of Csopak are built on Roman foundations. In 1900 a Roman wine cellar was excavated whose ground plan and organization could be established. East of the highway bridge, along the lake shore, irregularities in the ground surface indicate the presence of rooms terminating in apses. From this area come fragments of the table-like marble slabs used among the Christians in the so-called “Agape” rite. At the edge of the marble table are carved in relief a unicorn and an archer hunting a lion. The table was made in Egypt during the first half of the 4th c. Considering the location and the circumstances of discovery of other objects of similar use, we can assume that underground lie the ruins of a 4th c. place of Early Christian worship.
BIBLIOGRAPHYE. Thomas, “Bruchstück einer frühchristlichen Marmortischplatte mit Reliefverzierung aus Csopak,” Acta Ant. (1955) 261-82; id., Romische Villen (1966) 28-32.
E. B. THOMAS