Dedication to SarapisJ. M. ReynoldsJ. B. Ward-Perkins
Creative Commons licence Attribution UK 2.0 (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/uk/).
All reuse or distribution of this work must contain somewhere a link back to the URL http://irt.kcl.ac.uk/
Republished from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British
School at Rome, 1952.
Marked-up according to the EpiDoc Guidelines version 5 http://www.stoa.org/epidoc/gl/5/
ArabicEnglishFrenchGermanAncient GreekTransliterated GreekModern GreekHebrewItalianLatinPunicNative Libyan language in Latin scriptTripolitaniaLibyaLeptis Magna2008-09-09ZAconverted using CHET-C2009-05-19RVAdded Figures2009-08-24RVAdded Figures
Description of Monument
Moulded marblebase
(0.620.950.29) with a socket above.
Description of Text
Inscribed on one face within a shallow recess
(die, 0.440.45).
Description of Letters
Lettering 0.045. The lettering shows the influence of second century. Rustic forms.
Date
Probably second century
(lettering)
Locations
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.
Unknown
Now forming part of an ornamental ruin at
Virginia Water, Surrey, along with one block of
342 and 693.
Bibliography
4962;
Berkshire, Buckinghamshire and Oxfordshire Archaeological Journal IX (1903) 48 ff.;
Tod, Journal of Hellenic Studies, LXI (1941) 39.
Text constituted from
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins)
Text
ΔιὶἡλίῳμεγάλωιΣαράπιδικαὶτοῖςσυννάοιςθεοῖςΠόπλιοςΑὐρήλιοςΔιόσκοροςἀνέθηκεν
Translation
To Zeus, the sun, the great Sarapis, and the gods who dwell in his temple; Publius Aurelius Dioscoros dedicated this.