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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1075. Dedication to Serapis

Description: Limestone base, with moulding above and below w: 0.28 x h: 0.665 x d: 0.34-35.
Text: Inscribed on the upper moulding (a) and on the face (b).
Letters: 0.025; lunate sigma and epsilon

Date: After 161 CE (context)

Findspot: Lepcis Magna: Regio V, in the Serapeion.
Original location: Findspot
Last recorded location: Findspot

Interpretive

a
[Ἀνί]κ̣ητοϲ
b
Διὶ Ἡλίῳ μεγά-
λῳ Ϲαράπιδι ((leaf))
καὶ τοῖϲ ϲυννά-
((leaf))οιϲ θεοῖϲ ((leaf))  
5 Μ(ᾶρκοϲ) Αὐρήλιοϲ Πετ-
ρώνιοϲ ὁ καὶ Δη-
( vac. 4)μήτριοϲ
εὐξάμενοϲ ἀνέ-
((leaf))θηκα ((leaf))

Diplomatic

a
[...].ΗΤΟϹ
b
ΔΙΙΗΛΙΩΜΕΓΑ
ΛΩϹΑΡΑΠΙΔΙ
ΚΑΙΤΟΙϹϹΥΝΝΑ
ΟΙϹΘΕΟΙϹ
5ΜΑΥΡΗΛΙΟϹΠΕΤ
ΡΩΝΙΟϹΟΚΑΙΔΗ
        ΜΗΤΡΙΟϹ
ΕΥΞΑΜΕΝΟϹΑΝΕ
ΘΗΚΑ

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(a): Aniketos

( b): To Zeus Helios great Serapis, and the gods who share the temple: Marcus Aurelius Petronius also called Demetrius, having promised I set up (scil. the offering)

Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003 4, 273, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique 2004.459, AE 2003.1907, SEG 53.1172, whence PHI 323918

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