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Inscribed Plaque Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Plaque Fragment: Building Inscription for Construction or Repair of Aqueduct
- Date
- 1st–2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN64.023
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Building Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ὕδωρ . [ . ] . [ ΑΝΟ̣[
- Inscription Translation
- “Aqueduct [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- Trench
- BE 64
- Locus
- B Marble Court
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E23.50 / N80 *97.50
- Findspot
- Bath-Gymnasium Complex, Marble Court.
- Description
Upper left corner of a plaque of white marble; broken on the right and lower sides. The inscribed surface is damaged, and the rear surface is rough.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.27, W. 0.42, Th. 0.10, H. of letters 0.045.
- Comments
This was probably a building inscription mentioning the construction or repair of an aqueduct; cf. the “record of the completion of an aqueduct by Claudius,” Sardis VII 1, no. 10.
1 The remains of the letters following ΥΔΩΡ might belong to Μ̣[ . ]Η̣.
2 Perhaps ἀνθ̣[υπάτου] or ἀνθ̣[υπατεύοντος]; cf. IGSK 24, 1 (Smyrna), nos. 680–681.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP