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Inscribed Block (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block: Honorific Inscription for Asklepiades Kotteus, by the Mystai
- Date
- (Early?) Roman Imperial period (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN60.001
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Οἱ μύσσται ἐτείμησαν Ἀσ- κληπιάδην Ἀπολλωνίου Κοτ- τῆα ἔφηβον ἥρωα.
- Inscription Translation
- “The mystai have honored Asklepiades Kotteus, son of Apollonios, the ephebe, a hero.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- Trench
- PC
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *93.62
- Findspot
- Pactolus Cliff, Area 3.
- Description
Block of marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.085, W. 0.43, Th. 0.20, H. of letters 0.018.
- Comments
Commentary mostly from SEG, after Herrmann:
“The identity of the mystai must have been evident from the place where the inscription was erected: honorary inscription for a member of the cultic association who died as an ephebe [Chiron, p. 317 n. 9; L. Robert, Hellenica XIII, p. 207, with n. 3; id., Laodicée, p. 265] rather than an epitaph.”
2 Ligature: -ΔΗΝ
2–3 Κοττῆα: unusual spelling of the accusative of Κοττεύς (either an ethnic/demotic or, preferred by O. Masson apud ed. pr., a second name) rather than of Κοττης, Κοττᾶς, and Κοττώ; cf. J. and L. Robert, Hellenica VI, pp. 11–13; see also L. Robert, Noms indig., p. 283.
According to C. P. Jones, New Heroes in Antiquity (2010), the attribute ἥρως, especially in honorific inscriptions, attests a heroic cult.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- P. Herrmann, Chiron 26 (1996), pp. 317–18, 342, fig. 1 (SEG 46, 1527).
- Author
- GP