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Inscribed Base Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Base Fragments (marble collapse in area of late antique Spolia Wall): Honorific Inscription for Statue of Benefactor of the Menogeneion, by Myrinos, his friend
- Date
- 1st–2nd century AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S13.112
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - - - - - ]ΚΑ[ ]ΤΩΝ̣[ ] . Η[ 4 ]ΝΑ[ ]ΠΡΩ[Τ ]Ξ[ ]ΡΑΜ[ 8 ]ΚΑΙ[ ] . ΔΙΟ[ ]ΣΕ̣[ ]ΕΣ . [ 12 Μ]ην[ογεν]ειο[ ]α̣ντα τὰς ὀρο[φάς ]ΟΥΤΟΙΣ φιλοτειμ[ ] ]Ο̣Ν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων καὶ 16 ]σαντα λίθοις λευ- [κοῖς] τὸ ὕπαιθρον τοῦ [Μηνο]γενείου. leaf [ ] Μυρεῖνος ἐπίτρο- 20 [πος το]ῦ̣ Σεβαστοῦ τὸν [ἀνδριά]ντα τοῦ φίλου [ἐκ τῶν ἰ]δίων ἀνέστησεν.
- Inscription Translation
- “[ - - - ] first [ - - - - - M]en[ogen]eio[n? - - - building? / repairing?] the roofs [ - - - ] zeal[ - - - ] from his own funds and [ - - - decorating?] with marble stones the open enclosure of the [Meno]geneion. [ - - ] Myrinos, the procurator Augusti erected the statue of his friend [from his] own funds.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 13.1
- Locus
- F55 05.3 Locus 4
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E775.6 / S186.06 *129.508
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, marble collapse in area of late antique Spolia Wall.
- Description
Two joining fragments of a base of marble; the upper fragment is broken on all sides, and the lower above and on the left. There is a molding at the bottom. The fragments join at l. 13.
- Dimensions
- H. upper frag. 0.67, lower frag. 0.79, W. upper frag. ca 0.24, lower frag. ca. 0.40, Th. ca. 0.51, H. of letters 0.03.
- Comments
5 πρω[τόχθων or πρώ[τη?
12 and 18 The Menogeneion is mentioned in Sardis VII 1, no. 17, 15: “The place here named may be connected with Menogenes of no. 8; cf. AJA xviii 1914 p. 341.”
15 Dot: ΙΔΙΩΝ·ΚΑΙ.
16 [κοσμή]σαντα?
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Author
- GP