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B.71. Dedication to Asklepios and Hygeia

Description: Two fragments of a sandstone colonnette (h: 0.20).
Text: Inscribed on all four sides of the rectangular base.
Letters: 0.015-0.018

Date: Dated by Oliverio in the third century CE

Findspot: Berenike: Sabri, near the Sudanese village (area of the site of Euhesperides); found in 1915
Original location: Unknown.
Last recorded location: Findspot (1915).

Interpretive

Χάροψ Ἀσκ
[λ]ηπίῳ καὶ Ὑ
γίαι ἀνέθ
ηκε

Diplomatic

ΧΑΡΟΨΑΣΚ
[.]ΗΠΙΩΚΑΙΥ
ΓΙΑΙΑΝΕΘ
ΗΚΕ

English translation

Translation by: Editors

Charops dedicated (scil. this) to Asklepios and Hygeia

Commentary

No comment (2020).

Bibliography: Oliverio, 1916, 189 and fig. 10 (drawing), whence SEG 9.770, Vitali, 1932, 126; from these Reynolds, 1978, 20, whence SEG 28.1539; cited Dobias-Lalou, 1993, 33
Text constituted from: From publications (Reynolds).

Images

None available (2020).