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Inscribed Base (©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 [- -] Claudius [- - -] Menophilos Di[-?-]onianos
- Date
- Probably 2nd century AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S13.147
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - - - - - [ . . . . . ] Κλαυδιο̣[ ] [ . . . ] Μηνόφιλος Δι- [ . . . ]ω̣νιανὸς ἀσιάρχης, 4 [ἀπὸ] χ̣ιλιαρχίας, τὸν τῆς [πατρί]δος καὶ ἑαυτοῦ [ε]ὐ̣εργέτην.
- Inscription Translation
- “[ - - - ] Claudius [ - - - ] Menophilos Di[ -?- ]onianos, asiarches, [ex-] tribunus militum, (honored him as) the benefactor of the native city and of himself.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 13.1
- Locus
- F55 13.1 Locus 3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E778.7 / S184.8 *128.648
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, built into late antique Spolia Wall.
- Description
Base of marble; broken above with the molding below trimmed. Between ll. 1 and 2, a horizontal line was chiseled later, perhaps in preparation for cutting the stone. The beginnings of the lines are obscured by the positioning of the block.
- Dimensions
- Visible H. 0.57, visible W. 0.45, Th. 0.53, H. of letters 0.03.
- Comments
Date proposed according to the following observation by D. Campanile, per litt.: “…il titolo di asiarca e l’essere già stato tribunus militum. Salvo casi particolari sarebbe abbastanza raro per un personaggio della provincia d’Asia non altrimenti conosciuto essere dell’ordine equestre nel I d.C. Il titolo di asiarca si trova con maggiore frequenza a partire dalla fine del I e soprattutto a partire dall’inizio del II d.C.”
Dots between ΔΟΣ and ΚΑΙ (l. 5); after THN (l. 6).
2–3 In Herrmann and Malay, New Documents, no. 88, 9 is attested the name Αἴ(λιος) Διωνιανός (northeastern Lydia, 166/67 AD). If Μηνόφιλος Δι/ω̣νιανός were to be restored here, l. 3 would be indented.
3–4 The last two letters in each line are in smaller script (l. 3 ΧΗΣ; l. 4 ΤΗΣ); cf. nos. 344, 9 and 383, 6 comm.
4 [ἀπὸ] χ̣ιλιαρχίας: cf. IGSK 15 (Ephesos), no. 1553, 8 (“a militiis”).
4–6 cf. Sardis VII 1, nos. 60, 62–63.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP