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Inscribed Base Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Base Fragment: Honorific Inscription for Emperor?
- Date
- Roman Imperial period., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN71.010c
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Αὐτοκρά]τ̣ορ[α - - - [- - - ] . [- - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “Imperator [- - -]”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- Locus
- B Marble Court
- Findspot
- Bath-Gymnasium Complex, excavation stone pile near the Marble Court.
- Description
Right front corner of a base; broken on the left and lower sides; the cornice is on the right, and the top is rough, with the remains of a recess, the rear is also rough. Letters of remarkable size with long apices.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.17, W. 0.21, Th. 0.19, H. of letters 0.065.
- Comments
Herrmann’s restoration.
2 Horizontal stroke on the upper border of the line.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP