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Inscribed Pillar (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Pillar, In Situ (probably reused as door jamb for late antique space) (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Pillar (probably reused as door jamb for late antique space): Honorific Inscription for [ -]us Iulius [ -]aios
- Date
- 1st–2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S15.025
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ ]ον Ἰούλιον [ ]γ̣ένους υἱὸν [ ]αῖον, ἄνδρα 4 [καλὸν] κ̣αὶ ἀγαθὸν [ ]ν ἕνεκεν [ ] διενηνο- [χότα ἐ]τ̣είμησαν 8 [ τ]ῇ̣ διστέγῳ [τῆς ἀγ]ορᾶς στοᾷ [ ]λαι. leaf
- Inscription Translation
- “The […Phy?]lai honored [ -]us Iulius [ -]aios, son of [ -]genes, a man of high quality, because of [ - - ], outstanding in [ - - ] the two-story portico [of the agora].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 14.3
- Locus
- F55 16.1 Locus 96
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E782.50 / S184.00 *129.05
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, fallen, probably reused as a door jamb for a late antique space.
- Description
Pillar of white marble. The left half of the inscribed surface has been chiseled off.
- Dimensions
- H. 2.60, W. 0.60, Th. 0.70, H. of letters 0.045.
- Comments
1–2 [Τιβέρι]ον Ἰούλιον / [Μηνο- Ἑρμο- etc.]γένους υἱόν?
6–7 Cf., e.g., Ch. Roueché, Performers and Partisans… (1993), p. 225, no. 88, ii, 25–26: αἷς τὸν ἄνδρα τειμαῖς ὡς διενηνοχότα τῶν ἄλλων τετειμήκαμεν.
8–9 Cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 17, 9: …πρὸς τῇ διστέγῳ τῆς [ ]; and no. 12: ἡ Διονυσιὰς φυλὴ τὴν στοὰν καὶ τὴν ἐξέδραν σὺν τῇ ἐν αὐτῇ ἀποθήκῃ διστέγῳ καὶ ἑτέρᾳ ἀποθήκῃ καταγείῳ…
10 [αἱ (number) φυ]λαί?
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP