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Inscribed Base? Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Base? Fragments (marble collapse in area of late antique Spolia Wall): Honorific Inscription for family member of Gaius Asinnius Nikomachos Frugianus
- Date
- Reign of Severus Alexander., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S14.072
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - - - - - - - - - - - - [ ]ΝΙ̣[ 3–4 ] [ Ἀσιν]ν̣ίου Φροῦ- [γι καὶ (?) Γαΐας . . . . . . . . ας Ἀσιννίας Φρου]γίλλης 4 [ (?) ἔγγ]ονον [ ε]ὐεργε- [τ- / σ- ἀ]δελφι- [δοῦν ] . στρα- 8 [τηγ- ]ΙΩΝ [ ]Ο̣Σ - - - - - - - - - - - - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - - of Asin]nius Fru[gi and Gaia - - - -a Asinnia Fru]gilla [- - - (great-?) grand]-child [- - -] benefactor (-faction(s)?) [- - -] a cousin [- - -] general(?) [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 14.1
- Locus
- F55 05.3 Locus 4
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E775.9 / S181.2 *127.71
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, marble collapse in area of late antique Spolia Wall.
- Description
Three joining pieces of a fragment of white marble, probably from a base; broken on all sides except for a portion of the right edge.
- Dimensions
- Max. H. 0.34, max. W. 0.18, max. Th. 0.085, H. of letters 0.023–0.05.
- Comments
This fragment belonged to an honorific inscription concerning members of the same family as no. 401, a long honorific inscription for Gaius Asinnius Nikomachos Frugianus, where members of at least three generations of his prominent family are mentioned; see P. Herrmann’s stemma in Chiron 23 (1993), p. 255. At the end of no. 401 it is mentioned that according to a decree of the city αἱ τιμαί (= statues? or copies of the honorary inscription?; see no. 401, 39–46 comm.) are to stand “[in the] four markets,” l. 46: [ἐν τοῖς τέ]σ̣σαρσιν μ[α]κέλλοις. Does the findspot of the present fragment give a hint to the location of one of these four markets?
2–3 no. 401, 22–24: Gaia [- -]a Asinnia Frugilla and [- - A]sinn(ius) Frugi are mentioned as the honoree’s grandparents: ἔγγονον δὲ Γαΐας etc.
4 [(?) ἔγγ]ονον: see the preceding note. Or [προέκγ]ονον (see no. 401, 20–21)?
5 [ε]ὐεργε[τ- / σ- ]: no. 401 mentions benefactions owed to members of the family.
6 [ἀ]δελφι[δοῦν]: Gaius Asinnius Nikomachos Frugianus was a cousin (ἀδελφιδοῦς) [Γ]αΐ[ω]ν Ἀσιννίων (cf. here l. 8 [ ]ΙΩΝ) Ῥούφου Νεικομά[χου κ]αὶ Λεπίδου (no. 401, 29–31).
7–8 ΣΤΡΑ follows an upper horizontal stroke: [- - A]sinn(ius) Frugi was high-priest of Asia and στρατηγός (no. 401, 27).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP