Speaker Details

Dr Mohamed   El- Maghraby
Assistant Professor- Graeco-Roman History and Civilization

Presentation Abstract:

The Dedication of Iulius Publius Pius to Sarapis on an offertory box from the Sarapeum of Alexandria

Three new Greek inscriptions recorded on an offertory box of stone housed in the Greco-Roman Museum in Alexandria. The offertory box, which I found several years ago in one of the streets of Alexandria, belongs to the period of the Roman of Egypt. Three different inscriptions are recorded on the stone: the main inscription is a dedication ex-voto of various objects made to Sarapis by a Roman trierarch who was promoted to the cohort centurionate in the army; the other two sides of it also include two other inscriptions which record the proskynema of an epitropos.