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Inscribed Statue Base (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Statue Base: Honorific Inscription by Herakleides for his son Ask[…
- Date
- “May be late Hellenistic to Early Roman” (excavation record)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S85.002
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἡ[ρακ]λείδης Τυιου Η[ ] τὸν αὐτοῦ υἱὸν Ἀσκ[- ]
- Inscription Translation
- “Herakleides, son of Tyios, [- - - (has honored)] his son Ask[ ].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 85.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 85.1 Locus 85
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E149 / S58.8 *100.39
- Description
“Fragment of a marble statue base with half of a right foot…and…of a taller, narrower object”. The inscription is on the front face.
- Dimensions
- Max. H. 0.098, W. 0.251, Th. 0.71.
- Comments
1 All attestations for the Lydian name Τυιος in Zgusta, Kleinas. Personennamen, p. 527, § 163, and LGPN VA refer to Sardis: Sardis VII 1, no. 1, I, 18; SEG 36, 1011, 13, 39, 46, and 52.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP