Description:
Marble base (w: 0.31 x h: 0.315 x d: 0.045) in the form of a low table, bevelled below, with a circular, grooved recess in the centre of the upper face; inscribed consecutively on the front and on the right- hand edge, and separately on the left-hand edge. 
Text:
Inscribed on the surviving faces. 
Letters:
Lettering 0.013: 
Date:
Unknown  
Findspot:
Lepcis Magna: Findspot unrecorded 
Original Location:
Unknown 
Last recorded location:
Findspot 
Bibliography:
L. Robert, Rev. Et. Gr., LXVI (1953) 203-4. This edition taken from J. M. Reynolds and J. B. Ward-Perkins, The Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania, Rome: British School at Rome, 1952; including revisions from J. M. Reynolds, 'Inscriptions of Roman Tripolitania: A Supplement', Proceedings of the British School at Rome 23 (1955), 124-147 
Text constituted from:
Transcription (Reynolds, Ward-Perkins) 
a

( On front edge, continued on to the right-hand edge: )

Διὶ μεγάλῳ Σαράπιδι Π(όπλιος) Σέρ(ουιος) Η[---]οχοος

(On front bevel:)

ἀπὸ κοινωνίας εὐχὴν ἀ(νέθηκε) κ(αὶ) ἀποδω
b

(On left-hand edge )

τύχους σὺν λύχνοις δυσί
a

( On front edge, continued on to the right-hand edge: )

ΔΙΙΜΕΓΑΛΩΣΑΡΑΠΙΔΙΠΣΕΡΗ[---]ΟΧΟΟΣ

(On front bevel:)

ΑΠΟΚΟΙΝΩΝΙΑΣΕΥΧΗΝΑΚΑΠΟΔΩ
b

(On left-hand edge )

ΤΥΧΟΥΣΣΥΝΛΥΧΝΟΙΣΔΥΣΙ
<div type="textpart" n="a" >
<div type="textpart" >
<note>
On front edge, continued on to the right-hand edge:
</note>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
Διὶ
μεγάλῳ
Σαράπιδι
<expan>
<abbr>
Π
</abbr>
<ex>
όπλιος
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
Σέρ
</abbr>
<ex>
ουιος
</ex>
</expan>
<orig >
η
</orig>
<gap reason="lost" extent="4" unit="line" extentmax="5" />
οχοος
</ab>
</div>
<div type="textpart" >
<note>
On front bevel:
</note>
<ab>
<lb n="2" />
ἀπὸ
κοινωνίας
εὐχὴν
<expan>
<abbr>
</abbr>
<ex>
νέθηκε
</ex>
</expan>
<expan>
<abbr>
κ
</abbr>
<ex>
αὶ
</ex>
</expan>
ἀποδω
</ab>
</div>
</div>
<div type="textpart" n="b" >
<note>
On left-hand edge
</note>
<ab>
<lb n="1" />
τύχους
σὺν
λύχνοις
δυσί
</ab>
</div>

a.1, ΣΕΡΗ might be taken together giving, e.g., Σερή[νιος χρυσ]οχόος, Robert. There is in fact a stop after ΣΕΡ so that H must be the first letter of the cognomen. The number of letters (4 or 5) given (in 1952) as missing between H and ΟΧΟΟΣ was calculated without allowing for the possibility of ligatures, which are fairly freely used in this inscription: it could in fact be 7 or 8. Even so the cognomen must have been a short one, if space must be allowed for ΧΡΥΣ as well.

a.2, ἀποδω: Perhaps for ἀπέδωκεν or ἀποδίδωσι.

b.1, [τοὺς (or τὰς) διπ (or τριπ)] τύχους, Robert. The stone is chipped before ΤΥΧΟΥΣ. It would be just possible to fit in two letters here - perhaps, but with difficulty, three; but not more. There is no room for another line.

Translation:

(a) To Zeus the great god Sarapis; Publius Servius [·· ? ··]ochoos dedicated and (set up) his offering from the ?common stock .

(b). . . ?with two lamps.

Commentary:

No comment.

Photographs:

Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIII.30)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIII.30)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.31)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XXIV.31)
Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIII.29)
 Ward-Perkins Archive, BSR (BSR 48.XIII.29)

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