Description:
Moulded marble base (w: 0.62 x h: 0.95 x d: 0.29) with a socket above. 
Text:
Inscribed on one face within a shallow recess (die, w: 0.44 x h: 0.45). 
Letters:
Lettering 0.045. The lettering shows the influence of second century. Rustic forms. 
Date:
Probably second century (lettering) 
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded. Presumed to have come from Lepcis Magna, together with one block of 342 and 693 and a number of architectural fragments, which were presented to King George IV.  
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Now forming part of an ornamental ruin at Virginia Water, Surrey, along with one block of 342 and 693
Bibliography:
Corpus Inscriptionum Graecarum 4962; Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal IX (1903) 48 ff.; Tod, Journal of Hellenic Studies, LXI (1941) 39. 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) 
Διὶ ἡλίῳ μεγάλωι
Σαράπιδι καὶ τοῖς
συννάοις θεοῖς
Π(όπλιος) Αὐρήλιος Διόσκορος
5ἀνέθηκεν
ΔΙΙΗΛΙΩΜΕΓΑΛΩΙ
ΣΑΡΑΠΙΔΙΚΑΙΤΟΙΣ
ΣΥΝΝΑΟΙΣΘΕΟΙΣ
ΠΑΥΡΗΛΙΟΣΔΙΟΣΚΟΡΟΣ
5ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕΝ
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Διὶ
ἡλίῳ
μεγάλωι
<lb n="2" />
Σαράπιδι
καὶ
τοῖς
<lb n="3" />
συννάοις
θεοῖς
<lb n="4" />
<expan>
<abbr>
Π
</abbr>
<ex>
όπλιος
</ex>
</expan>
Αὐρήλιος
Διόσκορος
<lb n="5" />
ἀνέθηκεν
</ab>

Translation:

To Zeus, the sun, the great Sarapis, and the gods who dwell in his temple; Publius Aurelius Dioscoros dedicated (this).

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR

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