Fragmentary dedication to Sarapis
created: Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
source date: Second to third centuries CE
language: ar; en; fr; de; grc; grc-Latn; el; he
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[a: On front edge, continued on to the right-hand edge:]

Διὶ μεγάλῳ Σαράπιδι Πόπλιος Σέρουιος η[...] οχοος

[On front bevel:]

ἀπὸ κοινωνίας εὐχὴν ἀνέθηκε καὶ ἀποδω

[b: On left-hand edge]

ϲτύλουϲ ϲὺν λύχνοιϲ δυϲί

[^a1: at b 1: [ . . ]ΤΥΧΟΥϹ | [τοὺς (or τὰς) διπ (or τριπ)]τύχους]

[a] To Zeus the great god Sarapis; Publius Servius [...]ochoos dedicated and set up his offering from the ?common stock .

[b]. . . ?with two lamps.

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