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Inscribed Stele Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele Fragment (reused in rubble wall of Marble Court): Honorific Inscription for Statue of Gaius Iulius Quadratus Machairion
- Date
- 1st century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN70.001
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
0 [Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δῆμος ?] 1 leaf? ἐ[τείμησεν leaf?] Γάιον [Ἰούλιον Κουαδρᾶτον Μαχαιρί]- ωνα̣ [τὸν ἑαυτῶν σωτῆρα καὶ κτίστην]· vacat [ ] 4 ἀν̣[αστησάντων / -στήσαντος / -στησάσης - -]
- Inscription Translation
- “[The Council and the People(?) have honored] Gaius [Iulius Quadratus Machairi]on, [their savior and founder. - - - erected his statue].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- Trench
- MC 70
- Locus
- B Marble Court
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E32 / N52 top *96.60
- Findspot
- Bath-Gymnasium Complex, reused in secondary rubble wall between two columns of the screen colonnade of the Marble Court.
- Description
- Fragment of a stele of gray marble; broken on the right and lower sides. The inscribed surface was cut and seems to have become the bottom surface when the stone was transformed. A molding was added on the left side; there is a dowel hole on the original upper surface.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.27, max. W. 0.40, max. Th. 0.29, H. of letters 0.035.
- Comments
- The same person is probably honored in no. 339 and no. 341. The text is restored after no. 339 where the honorand’s name is preceded by the words τὸν ἑαυτῶν σωτῆρα καὶ κτίστην. If an honoring corporation in the singular was named, the pronoun in l. 3 would be ἑαυτοῦ or ἑαυτῆς.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP