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Inscribed Statue Base (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Statue Base, In Situ (reused in late antique spolia wall), Upper left stone (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Statue Base (reused in late antique Spolia Wall): Honorific Inscription for Flavius Proclus, Priest of Zeus Polieus
- Date
- 1st–2nd century AD?, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN05.016
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ψ]η̣φισαμέ[νης] [τ]ῆς βουλῆς [καὶ] [v] τοῦ δήμου [v] 4 Φ̣λ. v Πρόκλο[ν], [β]ουλευτήν, τὸν ἱερέα τοῦ Πολιέ- ως Διὸς καὶ πα- 8 νηγυρίαρχον καὶ ἀγωνοθέ̣τ̣ην̣, ζήσαντα σεμνῶ[ς] καὶ ἐπιεικῶς 12 [Φλ.] Σεκοῦνδος [στρ]ατηγὸς v α´, [τὸ]ν̣ γλυκύτατον̣ [vac. ἀ]δελφόν. vac.
- Inscription Translation
- “In accordance with the decree of the Council and the People, the First General [Fl(avius)(?)] Secundus (honored) the councilor Fl(avius) Proclus, the priest of Zeus Polieus and director of the panegyris and agonothetes, his dearest brother, who has lived honorably and moderately.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 05.3
- Locus
- F55 13.1 Locus 3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E774.20 / S182.80 *128.39
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, built into late antique Spolia Wall.
- Description
Statue base of marble; trimmed on the right, and some letters have been broken off of the left as well. The top is roughly worked, and the side is picked. Clamp marks from reuse appear on both top and bottom surfaces. The cornices above and below have been cut off. Letters with long apices.
- Dimensions
- H. 1.20, W. 0.44, Th. 0.47, average H. of letters 0.03.
- Comments
4 Φ̣Λ · ΠΡΟΚΛ.: with oversize initial letters and dot, the stone.
6 ἱερέα: iota exceeds the average letter height. For testimonies of the cult of Zeus Polieus in Sardis, see nos. 350, 18; 384, 9; 441, 2; 592, 5, and the index of Sardis VII 1.
10–11 See references in EpAnat 40 (2007), pp. 26–27.
12 init.: Probably [ΦΛ ·] ΣΕΚΟΥΝΔΟΣ. See Sardis VII 1, no. 17, 22: Φλ. Σεκ[οῦνδος] (“about 200 A.D.”; cf. no. 590, 5 comm.).
13 The cipher A, under a horizontal stroke, exceeds the average letter height.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GP