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Inscribed Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragment: Senatus Consultum?
- Date
- Late Republican?, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN61.048
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Decree or Other Decision
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
? τῇ συγκλήτῳ] ἀ̣ρ̣έ̣σ̣κει v καὶ [ ] . ΣΕ περὶ τούτου τοῦ πράγμ[ατος ] Ῥωμαίους ὑπὸ Ῥωμαίων ΠΑ̣[ 4 ] ἐ̣πιτρο̣[π- . . ] αὐτῶ̣ν v ΚΑΙΤ̣[
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] it is agreed [by the Senate] and [- - -] about this subject [- - -] Romans by Romans [- - -] procurator (?) [- -] of them and (?) [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Ac
- Trench
- AcT 61
- Locus
- Ac Grave 61.021
- B-Grid Coordinates
- Acropolis Grid: W 20-W 22/N 4-N 2; * 402-402
- Findspot
- Acropolis Top, reused in Byzantine Grave 61.21.
- Description
Fragment of white marble, broken on all sides. In comparison with Herrmann’s edition the last line is slightly more damaged ([αὐ]τῶ̣ν).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.10, W. 0.52, Th. 0.28, H. of letters 0.017.
- Comments
1 ἀρέσκειν τῇ συγκλήτῳ corresponds to the Latin senatui placere.
2 The remains of the letter before ΣE are not clear; they may belong to a “squeezed” Y ([-]υσε, περὶ, etc. Herrmann; [? διήκο]υσε περὶ, etc. A. Chaniotis, SEG).
In a senatus consultum (SC) the theme reproducing the relatio used to be concluded by the clause de ea re ita censuerunt which is rendered in Greek by the words περὶ τούτου τοῦ πράγµατος οὕτως ἔδοξεν, see R. K. Sherk, Roman Documents from the Greek East (1969), pp. 8, 14. The present fragment may thus belong to a SC translated into Greek (Herrmann has πράγµ[ατος οὕτως ἔδοξεν] in his text, l. 2). One cannot say whether the document was given alone in the inscription or whether it was, e.g., quoted in a cover letter.
3 “An affair, perhaps juridical, among the Romans, which testifies to a considerable number of Romans in Sardis at that time” (SEG, after Herrmann). - ΠΑ̣[ ]: or ΠΛ̣[ ]; ∏Ị[ ] Herrmann (πρ̣[οκρίνεσθαι]?, M. H. Crawford apud Herrmann, p. 43 [p. 228] n. 29).
4 Mention of an ἐπίτροπος (“Prozeßprocurator,” tutor?, Herrmann) or of ἐπιτροπή (tutela, Herrmann)?
- See Also
- Bibliography
- P. Herrmann, “Italiker und Römer in Sardeis,” in Res Publica Reperta…Festschr. J. Bleicken…, ed. J. Spielvogel (2002), pp. 41–44, no. II = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 227–29, no. 2 (SEG 52, 1175; AE 2002, 1401).
- Author
- GP