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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1076. Dedication to Serapis

Description: Limestone base, with moulding above and below, broken in two: w: 0.18 x h: 0.665 x d: 0.20.
Text: Inscribed on the front face (a) and on the right side (b)
Letters: 0.02-0.023, line 10 0.028; 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
Διὶ Ἡλίῳ με-
γάλῳ Ϲαράπι-
δι ((stop)) καὶ τοῖϲ
συννάοιϲ θε-
5( vac. ) οῖϲ ( vac. )  
Αὐρ(ήλιοϲ) [Ὠρ]ι̣γένηϲ
( vac. ) ὁ̣ κ̣α̣ὶ̣ ( vac. )  
Ἀθηνόδωρος   
( vac. ) ϲὺν τῇ ( vac. )
10θυγατρὶ ((leaf))
b
ἀνέθη-
( vac. ) καν ( vac. )
καὶ ϲυμ[βιοϲ?]
[Π?]ελία
15Ἀϲκα[---]

Diplomatic

a
ΔΙΙΗΛΙΩΜΕ
ΓΑΛΩϹΑΡΑΠΙ
ΔΙ ΚΑΙΤΟΙϹ
ΣΥΝΝΑΟΙϹΘΕ
5      ΟΙϹ        
ΑΥΡ[..].ΓΕΝΗϹ
      . ...       
ΑΘΗΝΟΔΩΡΟΣ   
      ϹΥΝΤΗ      
10ΘΥΓΑΤΡΙ
b
ΑΝΕΘΗ
      ΚΑΝ      
ΚΑΙϹΥΜ[....]
[.]ΕΛΙΑ
15ΑϹΚΑ[---]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

(a): To Zeus Helios, great Serapis, and the gods who share the temple: Aurelius Origenes also called Athenodoros, with his daughter (b): set up (scil. the offering) and also his wife? Pelia Aska[- . . .

Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003 5, 273, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique 2004.459, AE 2003.1908, SEG 53.1173, whence PHI 323919

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