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Inscribed Fragment (1) (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Fragment (2) (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Fragment (3) (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragments (from Synagogue, Forecourt and East Road portico): Votive Inscription by Aurelios [- -]iaros
- Date
- 4th–6th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.015
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Εὐχὴ Αὐ[ρ. - - - ]ι̣α̣ρου[ - - - ]Ι̣Ν.
- Inscription Translation
- “Vow of Aurelius [ ]iaros [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn FC Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E110 - E122 / N0 - N8 *98
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Forecourt and East Road portico (for the different findspots of the fragments, see Kroll).
- Description
Three non-joining fragments of a crowning member of marble. “The inscription runs across one face on the cyma molding” (Kroll). At the left of the text (which is in one line) is the depiction of a menorah and ivy leaf; at the right: a Torah shrine containing three scrolls.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.12, restored W. “probably…between one and two meters” [Kroll], preserved W. 0.84, Th. 0.23, H. of letters 0.04.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- S. Fine, ed., Sacred Realm… (1996), pp. 160–61, no. 23 (SEG 46, 1518); Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 45, no. 72; and p. 121, fig. 74 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 292–93, no. 138; AE 2001, 1890).
- Author
- GP