Description: Lower part of a rectangular base
(w:
0.24 x h:
0.365 x d:
0.205)
of fine-grained brown limestone.
Text: Inscribed on one face within a moulded panel (die, w:
0.102 x h:
0.285).
Letters: 0.022- 0.018.
Date: Second to third centuries CE (nomenclature)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded.
Original location: Presumably the Serapeion
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum.
8-9: Πρωτάρῃ IRT, 1952; Πρωτάρ[χ]ῃ Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique; The reading here, by Robert, is probably correct; it gives a better lay-out for line 9, and in fact some faint traces of χ seem visible Reynolds, 1955
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
To the gods who dwell in the same temple, Aurelius Origenes, also known as Athenodoros, together with his daughter, Protarche, (scil. made this) offering.
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 313, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1953.257, Reynolds, 1955 143, whence SEG 15.882, Vidman, SIRIS 802, PHI 189511, IRT, 2009, 313; Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003 7, whence AE 2003.1910, SEG 53.1175, whence PHI 323921 EDH 059263; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. DLM 1527 Leica)