312. Dedication to the Gods dwelling with Sarapis
- Description:
- Marble column-drum (h: 0.83 x diam.: 0.36-0.30).
- Text:
- Inscribed on the surviving face.
- Letters:
- Lettering: 0.029-0.22; l. 7 (set well below the main text), 0.04.
- Date:
- Second to third centuries A.D. (nomenclature)
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis Museum.
- 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)
<ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
<expan>
<abbr>
συν
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
νάοις
</ex>
θεοῖς
τοῦ
<lb
n="2"
/>
μεγάλου
Σαρά
<lb
n="3"
type="worddiv"
/>
πιδος
εὐχὴν
<lb
n="4"
/>
ἀνέθηκεν
<lb
n="5"
/>
Αὐρήλιος
Ἄτταλος
<lb
n="6"
/>
πανοικὶ
<lb
n="7"
/>
ἐπ’
ἀγαθῷ
</ab>
Translation:
To the gods who dwell in the temple of the great Sarapis; Aurelius Attalus dedicated this offering with his whole household in the hope of good fortune.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 331)
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