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Inscribed Base, Detail (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Base, In Situ (reused in late antique Spolia Wall) (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Base (reused in late antique Spolia Wall): Honorific Inscription for Tiberius Claudius Stlaccius Niger, Priest of Zeus Polieus, by tribe Pelopis
- Date
- 2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S15.053
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Φυλὴ Πελοπὶς ἐτείμη- σεν ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων Τιβέριο[ν] Κλαύδιον Στλάκ̣κιον Νίγρο[ν], 4 ἀρχιερέα τῶν τρισκαίδεκα π̣[ό]- λεων καὶ ἀγωνοθέ[τ]ην δὶς πε̣[ν]- ταετηρικῶν ἀγώνω[ν] καὶ στε[φα]- νηφόρον τρὶς ἐφεξ̣[ῆ]ς μετὰ τ[ῶν] 8 υἱῶν Ἰου̣λιανοῦ τε καὶ Στλακκί[ου] καὶ ἱερέα̣ Πολιέως Διὸ[ς ]ΡΗΤ[ ] Π̣ΟΥ Καίσαρος Σεβαστ[οῦ] . Π[ ] [ ]ενον καὶ στρατηγ[ ] 12 [ ]νόμον καὶ [ ] [ ]ΥΤΗΝΑΠ[ ] [ ] . [ ] - - - - - - - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “(The) phyle Pelopis honored from its own means Tiberius Claudius Stlaccius Niger, high-priest of the thirteen (Ionian) cities and twice agonothetes of quadrennial contests and three times stephanephoros in a row together with his sons Iulianus and Stlaccius, and priest of Zeus Polieus [and former priest of Tiberius(?)] Caesar Augustus and [chief] strategos [ - - -]nomos and [ - - - ].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 15.3
- Locus
- F55 13.1 Locus 3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E770.95 / S184.55 *128.2
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, built into late antique Spolia Wall.
- Description
Base of white marble.
- Dimensions
- Visible H. 0.54, visible W. 0.70, H. of letters 0.03–0.025.
- Comments
Some ligatures: l. 7: ΝΗΦ; l. 13: ΤΗΝ.
1 Φυλὴ Πελοπίς: cf. no. 583, 3.
2–3 and 8 For members of the gens Stlaccia in Sardis, see no. 477 comm.
4–5 See no. 350, commentaries on ll. 2–4 and 10–11.
5–6 cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 14a …ἐψηφισάμεθα τάχειον ἀγῶνα πενταετη[ρικόν]… The restoration πενταετηρίδος in Sardis VII 1, no. 46, 3 is doubtful (see SEG 46, 1523).
8 A stephanephoros Claudius Iulianus is mentioned in no. 592, who P. Herrmann assumes is identical with Tiberius Claudius Tiberii filius Quirina Iulianus (Sardis VII 1, no. 41*). Is the present Ἰουλιανός to be identified with (one of) them?
9 For other priests of Zeus Polieus, see nos. 349, 6; 350, 18; 441, 2; 592, 5, and the index of Sardis VII 1.
9–10 The majuscules reproduce only approximately what I fancied to read under the difficult conditions. I assume that Stlaccius Niger had officiated as priest of Tiberius and as chief strategos (cf. nos. 373, 12–14 and 333, 2 comm.) and propose hesitatingly the following restoration: …Διὸ[ς καὶ ἱε]ρῆ Τ[ιβε]/ρ̣ί̣ου Καίσαρος Σεβαστ[οῦ] γε̣[νό/μ]ενον καὶ στρατηγ[ὸν πρῶτον - -].
12 [ἀγορα]νόμον?
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Partly quoted by author in ZPE 200 (2016), pp. 239–40.
- Author
- GP