The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

Inscribed Base? Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Inscribed Base? Fragment (marble collapse in area of late antique Spolia Wall): Honorific Inscription

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 363

Date

1st–2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman

Sardis or Museum Inv. No.

S14.080

Material

Marble, Stone

Object Type

Statue Base, Inscription

Inscription Type

Honorific Inscription

Inscription language

Greek

Inscription Text

		-     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -
		[		             ]ΩΝ
		[		          ]ΤΟΝ
		[		          ] vacat
	4	[		          ]ΛΟΣ
		[		       ]ος ΑΣΙ-
		[		         ]Λ̣Ι̣[   ]
		-     -     -     -     -     -     -     -     -

Inscription Translation

“[- - -] of Asia [- - -]”(?) / “[- - -] asi[arches- - -]”(?)

Inscription Comment

Site

Sardis

Sector

F55

Trench

F55 14.3

Locus

F55 14.3 Locus 19

B-Grid Coordinates

E779.5 / S184.1 *129.35

Findspot

Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, marble collapse in area of late antique Spolia Wall.

Description

Fragment of white marble, probably of a base; broken on all sides except for a portion of the right edge and the inscribed face. Letters with apices.

Dimensions

Max. H. 0.66, max. W. 0.16, max. Th. 0.39, H. of letters 0.03–0.035, interlinear space: 0.03.

Comments

The accusative in l. 2 suggests that the fragment belonged to an honorific inscription. In the lines after the vacat the honoring person may have been named.

5 [ ]ος Ἀσί[ας]? (no. 350, 14 has an ἔκδικος τῆς Ἀσίας), [ ]ος ἀσι/[άρχ- ]?

See Also

Bibliography

Unpublished.

Author

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