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Inscribed Block Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block Fragment: Honorific Inscription for a Severan Emperor
- Date
- Reign of a Severan Emperor., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN64.021
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ ] . Καίσαρα [ ]ον Σεουῆρον
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] Caesar [- - -] Severus”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Found in a rock pile from the excavation.
- Description
Lower right corner of a block of marble; broken on the left, upper, and rear faces. The right side is smoothed and shows anathyrosis; the bottom is rough. The fragment may have belonged to the upper section of a statue base.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.12, W. 0.31, Th. 0.20, H. of letters 0.0257–0.03.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text. Summary of his commentary:
The two preserved lines may have belonged to an inscription honoring Caracalla; they would correspond exactly to no. 389, 1–2. But the addressee could as well have been either Septimius Severus ([Αὐτοκράτορα] Καίσαρα/[Λ. Σεπτίμι]ον Σεουῆρον/[Περτίνακα Σεβαστόν…], cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 73) or Severus Alexander ([Αὐτοκράτορα] Καίσαρα / [Μ. Αὐρήλι]ον Σεουῆρον / [Ἀλέξανδρον Σεβαστόν…]); cf. the alternative Caracalla or Severus Alexander in Sardis VII 1, no. 72.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP