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Inscribed Block Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block Fragment: Honorific Inscription for Tiberius Caesar Augustus, by tribe Dionysias
- Date
- 17–37 AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx73.039
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Φυλὴ Διον[υσιὰς] ἐτείμησεν ἐκ τ[ῶν ἰδίων] [Τιβέρ]ιον Καίσα[ρα Σεβαστόν].
- Inscription Translation
- “The tribe Dion[ysias] honored out of [its own funds Tiber]ius Caesar [Augustus].”
- Inscription Comment
- Findspot
- Unknown provenance.
- Description
Fragment of a block of white marble; at the top side are the remains of a profile, with a portion of the left side preserved, broken on the right. The lower face and rear have later been cut and smoothed (for reuse?). Letters with long apices.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.12, W. 0.32, Th. 0.11, H. of letters l. 1, 0.031; l. 2, 0.022.
- Comments
Herrmann refers to the parallel text Sardis VII 1, no. 34 mentioning the tribe Tymolis (see also no. 612, 4). The editors’ commentary (“In view of the special gratitude of the Sardians to Tiberius [see no. 414 comm.]…it is by no means improbable that each of the city’s tribes erected to him its own special monument.”) is confirmed by the present inscription.
1 The tribe Dionysias is attested also in Sardis VII 1, nos. 12 and 126; see N. F. Jones, Public Organization in Ancient Greece (1987), p. 355; U. Kunnert, Bürger unter sich; Phylen in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Ostens (2012), pp. 125–26. For the special mythological relationship between Dionysos and Sardis, see P. Weiß, “Götter, Städte und Gelehrte” (in Forschungen in Lydien, ed. E. Schwertheim [1995; = AMS 17], pp. 85–109), pp. 94–99.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- P. Herrmann, “Sardeis zur Zeit der iulisch-claudischen Kaiser” (in Forschungen in Lydien, ed. E. Schwertheim [1995 = AMS 17], pp. 21–36 = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 147–68), p. 27, pl. 2, 1 = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 153–54; 166, fig. 3 (SEG 45, 1643; AE 1995, 1457).
- Author
- GP