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Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania 2021

1077. Dedication to Serapis

Description: Limestone base, with moulding above and below: h: 0.666.
Text: Inscribed on the front face
Letters: 0.02-0.024; 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

Διὶ Ἡλί[ῳ] με-
γάλῳ Ϲαράπι-
[δ]ι καὶ τοῖϲ
συννάοιϲ θε-
5( vac. ) οῖϲ ( vac. )  
Αὐρ(ήλιοϲ) Ὠριγένηϲ
( vac. ) ὁ̣ κ̣α̣ὶ̣ ( vac. )
Ἀθηνόδωροϲ   
( vac. ) ϲὺν τῇ ( vac. )
10[θυ]γ̣α̣[τρί] ((leaf))

Diplomatic

ΔΙΙΗΛΙ[.]ΜΕ
ΓΑΛΩϹΑΡΑΠΙ
[.]ΙΚΑΙΤΟΙϹ
ΣΥΝΝΑΟΙϹΘΕ
5      ΟΙϹ        
ΑΥΡΩΡΙΓΕΝΗϹ
      . ...      
ΑΘΗΝΟΔΩΡΟϹ   
      ϹΥΝΤΗ      
10[..]..[...]

English translation

Translation by: Charlotte Roueché

To Zeus Helios, great Serapis, and the gods who share the temple: Aurelius Origenes also called Athenodoros, with his daughter.

Bibliography: Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003 6, 273, whence Dobias-Lalou, Bulletin Épigraphique 2004.459, AE 2003.1909, SEG 53.1174, whence PHI 323920

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