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Inscribed Pedestal? Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Pedestal? Fragment: Honorific Inscription
- Date
- 2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx72.028a
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Sculpture Type
- Inscription of lost statue
- Inscription Text
- - - - - - - - - - [ ]ΟΤ[ [ . . . . ]ΑΤΩΡΕ[ [ . . . . ]Σ καὶ ἀνα̣[ 4 σ̣τρατιωτικ[ πανη]- γυριαρχήσα[- ΚΗΣ ἀγορᾶς [ Διοσημίας [ 8 δὲ καὶ ἀρχι̣[ερ- τρισκαι]- δεκαπολ[ε- χ̣ίαις καὶ [ σε]- [μ]νῶς κ[αὶ 12 [ . ] . Ο̣ .[ - - - - - - - - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] and [- - -] military [- - -] having served as director of the panegyris [- - -] of the [- -] market(?) [- - -] sign(s) from Zeus [- - -] furthermore also high-priest(ess) of the thirteen (Ionian) cities[- - -] and [- - -] honorably and [moderately(?) - - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Bldg A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E700 / S50
- Findspot
- Near Building A.
- Description
Fragment of white marble, perhaps from a pedestal; broken on all sides except for a part of the left edge.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.36, W. 0.21, max. Th. 0.12, H. of letters 0.018–0.02.
- Comments
The honorific character of the inscription is not certain.
2 [ -π]άτωρ, or [ -κρ]άτωρ?
6 [ ]ΚΗΣ is probably the end of a word qualifying ἀγορᾶς; cf. the βιωτικὴ ἀγορά, the special market for victuals, in Oinoanda, SEG 38, 1462, 10, with the remarks by M. Wörrle, Stadt und Fest im kaiserzeitlichen Kleinasien (1988 = Vestigia 39), pp. 68–69, and in Stratonikeia IGSK 22, 1, nos. 530, 13 and 668, 9–10 (there written βιοτ-). It cannot be excluded that ΑΓΟΡΑΣ[ ] belongs to an aorist form of ἀγοράζω.
7 Διοσημίας: genitive singular or accusative plural? Perhaps Διοσημία / -ίᾳ Σ[ ]. Ἡ Διοσημία is “an omen from the sky, esp. of thunder, lightning, rain” (LSJ, referring to “Ar. Ach. 171: pl. Stoic. 2. 203, D. S. 2.19, Plu. 2. 419e, Philostr. VA 2. 33, Jul. Or. 7. 212b”).
8–9 Either a form of ἀρχιερεύς or ἀρχιέρεια, and then τῶν τρισκαί]δεκα πόλ[εων] or τῆς τρισκαι]-δεκαπόλ[εως]; cf. no. 350, 3–4, 10–11, 16–17, and the commentaries on ll. 2–4 and 10–11.
10–11 Perhaps something like [σε/μ]νῶς κ[αὶ ἐπιεικῶς]; cf. no. 349, 10–11.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP