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Inscribed Base (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Base (reused in late antique Spolia Wall): Honorific Inscription for Chresimos, the first official physician
- Date
- After 212 AD? (l. 8: [Αὐ]ρ̣. Χρήσιμος)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S13.145
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ψηφι]σαμένη[ς] [τῆς β]ουλῆς κα[ὶ] [v το]ῦ̣ δήμου vac. 4 [vvv Χ]ρήσιμον̣ [ ] [τὸν] πρῶτον ἀ[ρχ]- [ιατρ]ὸν καὶ φιλ[ό]- [vac.]σοφον vac. 8 [Αὐ]ρ̣. Χρήσιμος [ἀρχ]ιατρὸς τὸν [γ]λυκύτατον vac. [vv] πατέρα. vac.
- Inscription Translation
- “In accordance with votes issued by the Council and the People: [Aurelius] Chresimos, official physician, (has honored) Chresimos, [the] first [official physician] and philosopher, his dearest father.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 13.1
- Locus
- F55 13.1 Locus 3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E778.2 / S185 *128.708
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, built into late antique Spolia Wall.
- Description
Base of marble; broken on the right and left. There is a molding at the bottom.
- Dimensions
- H. 1.07, max. W. 0.53, Th. 0.51, average H. of letters 0.03.
- Comments
4 It seems that the name of the honoree was written centered (cf. ll. 7 and 11), i.e., not being preceded by Αὐρ(ήλιον).
5–7 Cf. IGRR III 733 = TAM II 3, 910 = E. Samama, Les médecins dans le monde grec (2003), p. 397, no. 290 (Rhodiapolis; time of Trajan), honors for Herakleitos, son of Herakleitos Oreios, ll. 12–14: πρῶτον ἀπ᾿ αἰῶνος ἰατρὸν καὶ συνγραφέα καὶ ποιητὴν ἔργων ἰατρικῆς καὶ φιλοσοφίας. “Héracleitos incarne ainsi l’idéal du médecin-philosophe que prônaient aussi bien écrits hippocratiques que Galien” (Samama, p. 398 n. 51, with further references to her corpus); cf. no. 689, 5–7 comm.
6 Dot: ΟΝ·ΚΑΙ.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP