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Catalog Record: berenike.apis.121 [xml]

Title Dedication by an interpreter
Summary Inscribed dedication to Zeus.
Citations O. Ber. II 121
O.Berenike:2:121
Inv. Id Inv. BE00 4709-U-121, 37.015
Support/Dimensions 1 inscribed block of local gypsum/anhydrite, 0.68 m x 0.225 m x 0.26 m.
Origin This document was discovered reused in a substantial structure of the fourth or fifth cent. AD in the eastern part of the site.
More from This document was discovered reused in a substantial structure of the fourth or fifth cent. AD in the eastern part of the site.
Language Greek
Date A.D. 113 - 117
More from the period between 113 CE and 117 CE
Note (general) 4 lines of text, badly eroded on left side. Letter height: ca. 4 cm., diminishing to 3 cm at bottom.
Note (general) Dedication to Isis on behalf of Trajan and the imperial familia by Papiris, interpreter and secretary during the prefecture of M. Rutilius Lupus.
Note (general) This block was reused in the same wall of a substantial structure from the late fourth to fifth cent. A.D. as O.Ber. II 118 and 119.
Subjects Inscriptions; Dedication; Prefect; Interpreter; Grammateus
License Creative Commons License This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 License.

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APIS Translation (English)

On behalf of the fortune of Imperator Caesar Nerva Trajan Augustus Germanicus Dacicus and all his house, to Isis the very great goddess . . . (son of?) Papiris, interpreter and secretary . . . under Marcus Rutilius Lupus, prefect of Egypt.