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Inscribed Block (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block from Anta of the Metroon (reused in Synagogue): End of Letter from Antiochos III?
- Date
- Ca. 213 BC., Hellenistic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.119
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Letter or Dossier Containing Letters, Decisions, Petitions, Subscriptiones, Honors
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ ]Ḷ[ . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ]Κ̣ΑΘ[ . . ]Α̣Σ̣ [ἀπ]αγγελο[ῦ]- [σιν ὑ]μῖν καὶ οἱ πρεσβευταὶ περὶ τῶν αὐτῶν. Ἔρρωσθε.
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] Your ambassadors will also report to you about the same matters. Farewell.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Spolia
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E45.5 / N6.2 *98.42
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, reused in one of the piers at the western end, see Gauthier, pl. XIV; originally belonging to an anta of the late Classical or Hellenistic Metroon (see no.
308 , 4–5 comm.).
- Description
Block of grayish-white marble, upper left corner damaged; separated by a blank space of 0.16 m, the inscription is followed by no. 302. For further details see Gauthier, pl. XII (drawing of the stone).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.64, W. 0.71, Th. 0.76, max. H. of letters 0.015.
- Comments
1 Gauthier hesitatingly proposes [ἐ̣ν̣ τ̣ο̣ῖ̣ς̣] κ̣α̣θ᾿ [ἡμ]ᾶς or [ὑμ]ᾶς (“in matters concerning us [or: you]”).
Material aspects rule out the possibility that these lines are the end of the letter of Antiochos III, no. 309 (Gauthier, pp. 114–15).
- See Also
- See also: M14, No. 302.
- Bibliography
- Gauthier, Nouv. inscr. Sard. II, pp. 113–16, no. 4A, pl. V (photograph of the stone), with translation and detailed commentary (SEG 39, 1286A; Ma, Antiochos III, pp. 360–62, no. 41A, with translation and note).
- Author
- GP