310a. Dedication to Sarapis
- Description:
- Moulded marble base (w: 0.62 x h: 0.95 x d: 0.29) with a socket above.
- Text:
- Inscribed on one face within a shallow recess (die, w: 0.44 x h: 0.45).
- Letters:
- Lettering 0.045. The lettering shows the influence of second century. Rustic forms.
- Date:
- Probably second century (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded. Presumed to have come from Lepcis Magna, together with one block of 342 and 693 and a number of architectural fragments, which were presented to King George IV.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now forming part of an ornamental ruin at Virginia Water, Surrey, along with one block of 342 and 693.
- Bibliography:
- Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 4962; Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal IX (1903) 48 ff.; Tod, Journal of Hellenic Studies, LXI (1941) 39. 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)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Διὶ
ἡλίῳ
μεγάλωι
<lb
n="2"
/>
Σαράπιδι
καὶ
τοῖς
<lb
n="3"
/>
συννάοις
θεοῖς
<lb
n="4"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
Π
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
όπλιος
</ex>
Αὐρήλιος
Διόσκορος
<lb
n="5"
/>
ἀνέθηκεν
Translation:
To Zeus, the sun, the great Sarapis, and the gods who dwell in his temple; Publius Aurelius Dioscoros dedicated (this).
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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