Description:
Marble
base
(w:
0.31 x h:
0.315 x d:
0.045) in the form of a low table, bevelled below, with a
circular, grooved recess in the centre of the upper face.
Text: Inscribed on the moulding: a on the upper and lower fasciae at
the front, continuing onto the right-hand side, and b on the left-hand side on the upper fascia.
Letters: 0.013: dot for stop; a.2, ΕΥ in ligature
Date: Second to third centuries CE (lettering, context)
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded
Original location: Unknown
Last recorded location:
Lepcis Museum
a.2: ἀπ(έ)δω[κε Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003
b.1: [ . . ]ΤΥΧΟΥϹ IRT, 1952; [τοὺς (or τὰς) διπ (or τριπ)]τύχους Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique
English translation
Translation by: J. M. Reynolds
(a) To Zeus the great god Sarapis; Publius Servius [---]ochoos dedicated and (scil. set up) his offering from the ?common stock .
(b). . . ?with two lamps.
Commentary
a.1: Robert (loc.cit) suggested that ΣΕΡΗ might be taken together giving, e.g., Σερή[νιος χρυσ]οχόος; but the stop after ΣΕΡ indicares that it is a nomen. 'The number of letters (4 or 5) given (in 1952) as missing between H and ΟΧΟΟΣ was calculated without allowing for the possibility of ligatures, which are fairly freely used in this inscription: it could in fact be 7 or 8. Even so the cognomen must have been a short one, if space must be allowed for ΧΡΥΣ as well' (Reynolds).
Check Vidman, SIRIS (1969) 798
Bibliography: IRT, 1952, 310, whence Robert, Bulletin Épigraphique 1953.257, SEG 15.881 Vidman, SIRIS 798, PHI 189507 IRT, 2009, 310, whence EDH 059259; Pugliese-Carratelli, 2003 12, 274-5, whence AE 2003.1915, SEG 53.1180, whence PHI 323926; for BSR images see BSR Digital Collections.
Images
Fig. 1. a: front face: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIII.30)
Fig. 2. a: front face: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XXIV.31)
Fig. 3. b: face: Ward-Perkins, 1948 (Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR 48.XIII.29)