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Inscribed Block Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
General View of Foundations of Monumental Arch (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block Fragment (reused in north foundations of Monumental Arch): Honorific Inscription for Deified Germanicus Caesar
- Date
- 37–41 AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN65.014
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Γερ]μανικὸν [Καίσα]ρα Θεὸν [Σεβασ]τ̣ὸν ὁ δῆ- 4 [μος καθιέρω]σεν.
- Inscription Translation
- “The People honored Germanicus Caesar, God, Augustus.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- RT
- Trench
- Syn 65
- Locus
- Monumental Arch (area of)
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E121.5 - E122.4 / S10 - S12.01 ca. *96.4
- Findspot
- Road Trench, Monumental Arch, built into the north foundations.
- Description
Fragment of a block of white marble whose left portion is cut off; at the top side are the damaged remains of a molding. The lower left part of the inscribed face was damaged when the stone was reused. There is a lewis hole in the middle for lifting and two clamp holes.
- Dimensions
- H. 1.18, W. 2.06, min. Th. 0.26, H. of letters 0.09–0.10.
- Comments
“Ed. pr. identifies the honorand with Caligula rather than with Germanicus (contra excavators and L. Robert (per epist.)) and gives parallels for Θεός (I.Didyma, no. 148) and for the formula Σεβαστὸς Γερμανικὸς Καῖσαρ (i.a. IGR IV 948, from Chios, with L. Robert, Op. Min. I, p. 498)…[for statues of Caligula and his relatives cf. R. Özgan, [AMS 15 (1995)] 83–86 and J.M. Reynolds in: A. Small (ed.), Subject and Ruler…, J(ourn.) R(om.) A(rchaeol.) Suppl. 17; Ann Arbor 1996), 47]” (SEG).
1 ON in a rasura that extends over a length of three more letters. It seems that K was originally followed by a vertical stroke (I?).
- 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), pp. 31–32, pl. 3, 2 = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 159–60, 167, fig. 6 (SEG 45, 1645; AE 1995, 1459).
- Author
- GP