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: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, context)
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
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the unconquered god Sarapis. Maro, freedman of Augustus and clerk, set up his gift.
Bibliography: Reynolds, 1951 ; IRT, 1952, 309, whence IRT, 2009, 309; Di Vita-Évrard, 2003 16, 285, whence AE 2003.1919 EDH 045501; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 944)