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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1073. Dedication ?to Serapis

Description: Three marble blocks, crowned by an upper cornice which is broken above and to the right: the ensemble forms a guard-rail to a flight of steps, and supported a statue. No overall measurements.
Text: Inscribed on the face: inscribed area w: 0.485 x h: 0.93
Letters: Lines 1-11, 0.04, lines 12 following, 0.035; lunate sigma and epsilon

Date: After 161 CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, in the Serapeion: the right-hand anta enclosing steps to the temple.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

Διοϲκορο̣[c. 9]-
-κλύτου μα[c. 7]οϲ
Αὐρήλιο[ϲ Διόϲκοροϲ]          
ϲὺν Αὐρηλ̣[ίῳ Διοϲκόρ]ῳ          
5 τῷ πατρὶ καὶ Αὐρηλίᾳ Θε-
ωδώρᾳ τῇ ἀδελφῇ καὶ  
Κανουληίᾳ Κλαυδιανῇ
τῇ ϲ̣υμβίῳ καὶ τοῖϲ τέκν-
οιϲ Αὐρηλίῳ Διοσκόρῳ  
10κ̣αὶ Αὐρηλίᾳ Εὐτυχίᾳ
κ̣αὶ τοῖϲ τῆϲ ἀδελφῆϲ
τέκνοιϲ Αὐρηλίῳ Πο-
τάμωνι καὶ Αὐρηλίᾳ
Θεοδώρᾳ καὶ Αὐρη-
15λίῳ Ποτάμωνι
τῷ τούτων πατρί,          
Δια Ὑψιϲτον ἀνέ-
θηκεν ἐπ’ἀγαθῷ

Diplomatic

ΔΙΟϹΚΟΡ.[·········]
ΚΛΥΤΟΥΜΑ[·······]ΟϹ
ΑΥΡΗΛΙΟ[..........]          
ϹΥΝΑΥΡΗ.[.........]Ω          
5ΤΩΠΑΤΡΙΚΑΙΑΥΡΗΛΙΑΘΕ
ΩΔΩΡΑΤΗΑΔΕΛΦΗΚΑΙ 
ΚΑΝΟΥΛΗΙΑΚΛΑΥΔΙΑΝΗ
ΤΗ.ΥΜΒΙΩΚΑΙΤΟΙϹΤΕΚΝ
ΟΙϹΑΥΡΗΛΙΩΔΙΟΣΚΟΡΩ 
10.ΑΙΑΥΡΗΛΙΑΕΥΤΥΧΙΑ
.ΑΙΤΟΙϹΤΗϹΑΔΕΛΦΗϹ
ΤΕΚΝΟΙϹΑΥΡΗΛΙΩΠΟ
ΤΑΜΩΝΙΚΑΙΑΥΡΗΛΙΑ
ΘΕΟΔΩΡΑΚΑΙΑΥΡΗ
15ΛΙΩΠΟΤΑΜΩΝΙ
ΤΩΤΟΥΤΩΝΠΑΤΡΙ          
ΔΙΑΥΨΙϹΤΟΝΑΝΕ
ΘΗΚΕΝΕΠΑΓΑΘΩ

1-2: perhaps Διοϲκόρο[υ τοῦ τέκνου Θεο]/κλύτου μα[καριϲθέντ]οϲ Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

. . . ] Dioskoros [ . . . -]klytos [ . . . ] Aurelius Dioskoros with Aurelius Dioskoros his father and Aurelia Theodora his sister and Kanuleia Klaudiane his wife and their children, Aurelius Dioskoros and Aurelia Eutychia and the children of his sister, Aurelius Potamon and Aurelia Theodora, and Aurelius Potamon their father, he set up (i.e. the statue of) Zeus Hypsistos, for good.

Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003 2, 272-3, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique 2004.459, AE 2003.1904, SEG 53.1169, whence PHI 323915

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