8. Dedication to Isis
- Description:
- Fragmentary panel (surviving width w: 0.24 x h: 0.18 x d: 0.02) of pink-grained white marble.
- Text:
- Inscribed on the face.
- Letters:
- Capitals, probably third century: 0.015-0.025.
- Date:
- Probably third century A.D. (lettering)
- Findspot:
- Sabratha: Temple of Isis, found in the southernmost vault beneath the cella
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Sabratha Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Not previously published. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952.
- Text constituted from:
- Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
<ab>
</ab>
<lb
n="1"
/>
Isidi
<expan>
<abbr>
sac
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
rum
</ex>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="2"
/>
lia
<g
type="stop"
>
</g>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
<lb
n="3"
/>
ca
<g
type="stop"
>
</g>
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
Translation:
Sacred to Isis; [·· ? ··]lia [·· ? ··]ca (gave and dedicated this)
Commentary:
No comment
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
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