309. Dedication to Sarapis

Description:
Altar (w: 0.34 x h: 0.77 x d: 0.32) of yellow-brown limestone. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face. 
Letters:
Rustic capitals: 0.04-0.05. 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Forum Severianum, East Portico, near the second taberna to the North of the main entrance to the Basilica.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.  
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
Deo inuicto
Sarapidi
Maro Aug(usti) lib(ertus)
comm(entariensis)
5donum posuit
DEOINVICTO
SARAPIDI
MAROAVGLIB
COMM
5DONVMPOSVIT
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Deo
inuicto
<lb n="2" />
Sarapidi
<lb n="3" />
Maro
<expan>
<abbr>
Aug
</abbr>
<ex>
usti
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
lib
</abbr>
<ex>
ertus
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
comm
</abbr>
<ex>
entariensis
</ex>
</expan>
<lb n="5" />
donum
posuit
</ab>

Translation:

To the unconquered god Sarapis. Maro, freedman of Augustus and clerk, set up his gift.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 944)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 944)

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