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; λινε 7 (set well below the main text), 0.04.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (nomenclature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Presumably the Serapeion
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
1: συν(νάοις) θεοῖς IRT, 1952
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
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.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 312, whence IRT, 2009, 312; Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003 8, whence AE 2003.1911, SEG 53.1176, whence PHI 323922; EDH 059262; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. CLM 331)