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Inscribed Stele Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele Fragment: Honorific Inscription
- Date
- 1st–2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN67.017
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - - ]ΝΟΝ[ ἀ]ξιολογω[τατ- τὸν ἀξιολογ]ώτατον [ 4 τὸν ἀξιολογώτ]α̣τον Μ[ ]ΩΝΠΕ[ ]ν στρω[ Π]ΡΩΤΟΓ̣[ 8 ]Ν·ΤΟ[ ]Ν[ - - - -
- Inscription Translation
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Found in Islamic cemetery on the west bank of the Pactolus.
- Description
Fragment of a stele of white marble; broken on all sides except perhaps for a small part of the bottom.
- Dimensions
- Max. H. 0.60, max. W. 0.24, max. Th. 0.09, H. of letters 0.03.
- Comments
Probably fragment of an honorific inscription.
1–3 ἀξιολογώτατος: this honorary title “est caractéristique du IIIe siècle, à partir de l’époque des Sévères. Il n’a pas sa place dans une échelle de titres, comme λαμπρότατος et κράτιστος pour la classe sénatoriale et la classe équestre; mais il témoigne d’une situation en vue dans la cité” (L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 56; cf. P. Herrmann, Chiron 23 [1993], p. 255 n. 75 and C. P. Jones, CP 1996, p. 250 n. 22). D. Magie, De Romanorum iuris publici sacrique vocabulis sollemnibus in Graecum sermonem conversis (1905), p. 106, has it as corresponding to Latin perfectissimus; H. G. Pflaum links it with honestissimus; see IGSK 24, 1 (Smyrna), no. 594, 14 comm.
6 [τὴ]ν στρῶ[σιν]?, see no. 429, b2; hardly [τὸ]ν στρώ[την], see no. 698, 5.
7 Probably a form of the personal name Πρωτογένης. There are other possibilities of restoration with πρωτογ- or πρωτοπ- (a form of πρωτόπαλος has no probability).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP