229. Dedication to Apollo
- Description:
- Rectangular base (w: 0.53 x h: 1.08 x d: 0.48) of compact grey limestone with moulded panels on front and sides; left, a raven on a tripod, right, a lyre and plectrum.
- Text:
- Inscribed panel on front heavily and apparently deliberately damaged, but still legible (die, w: 0.33 x h: 0.50). Three lines of Neo-Punic, in part erased and no longer legible, follow the Latin text. Uniform with 246.
- Letters:
- Lapidary capitals: 0.03.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Oea: Found in the walled into the Chapel of Sidi Chlifa el-Bulaghi, beside the Lighthouse Fort, Tripoli
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Now in front of Sabratha Museum.
- Bibliography:
- Aurigemma, Notiziario archeologico del Ministero delle Colonie, 4 fascicules, Roma, 1915-1927, 383 ff., figs. 2- 4; . L'Année Epigraphique (Revue des Publications épigraphiques relatives à l'Antiquité romaine: annual supplement to Rev. Arch.), 1919:97. 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"
/>
<del>
</del>
Apollini
<lb
n="2"
/>
sacrum
<lb
n="3"
/>
Aurellius
Epa
<lb
n="4"
type="worddiv"
/>
gri
<expan>
<abbr>
f
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
ilius
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
e
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
s
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
uo
</ex>
<expan>
<abbr>
d
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
edit
</ex>
Translation:
Sacred to Apollo. Aurellius son of Epagrus gave this at his own expense.
Commentary:
ll. 3-4. Aurellius Epagri filius. See also in 246.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. A 134)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.III.14)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (Sopr. D. 853)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 46.VIII.8)
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- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.III.15)
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