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© Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Empúries
Omeka ID 108
Empúries. Neàpolis
Greece

inscription, gravestone

MAC EMP-00722, MAC EMP-02619

Object type
inscription
Production date
-75 / -25
Fabric
stone matrial, construction and architectural of the Roman period
Museum
Museu d'Arqueologia de Catalunya - Empúries
Culture
Greece
Discovery location
Empúries. Neàpolis
Materials
gray marble
Township
Escala, l' (Europa, Espanya, Catalunya, Girona, Alt Empordà)
Technique
carved
Where is it?
Exposició permanent
Dimensions
110 x 330 x 58 mm
Description
Incomplete plate in grey marble from the Pyrenees, most likely from Saint-Beat. The three fragments preserved were found scattered in the southern sector of the Greek city of Emporion. The inscription is in capital letters and consists of 12 lines of text, in two halves, with the same text written in Latin and Greek. It is a dedication by a so-called Numas, probably a merchant, to the Alexandrian divinities of Isis and Serapis. The transcription of the text, once restored, should be as follows: “To Isis and Serapis, Numas, son of Numeri, originally from Alexandria, out of devotion had the temple built, the statues and the porticos" [Isidi et Sera]pi aedem / [simulacr]a porticus / [Numas N]umeni f(ilius) / [Alexandri]nus / [pietatis op]us faciu/[ndum cur(avit) // [EIEIDIS]ARAPI /[STO]ANNOYMAS/ NOYME]NIOYADE/[XAN]DREYS / [EYS]EBES · EPOEI

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