265. Greek dedication to Asclepius
- Description:
- Two fragments of a marble table (w: 0.30 x and w: 0.53 x h: 0.07 x d: 0.16) .
- Text:
- Inscribed on the forward edge within an elongated tabella ansata (height of die, h: 0.035) with a rosette in the right- hand, surviving ansa.
- Letters:
- Lettering 0.02.
- Date:
- Unknown
- Findspot:
- Lepcis Magna: From the Forum Severianum.
- Original Location:
- Unknown
- Last recorded location:
- Lepcis 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"
/>
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
Ἀσκ
</supplied>
ληπιῷ
σωτῆρι
<expan>
<abbr>
Μ
</abbr>
<ex>
</expan>
άρκος
</ex>
Ἰο
<gap
reason="lost"
extent="unknown"
unit="character"
/>
νς
ἀρχιερεὺς
α
<supplied
reason="lost"
>
ὐ
</supplied>
τοῦ
Translation:
To Asclepius the saviour; Marcus Io[·· ? ··]ns, his high priest.
Commentary:
No comment.
Photographs:
- Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 47.XV.12)
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