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Architrave Block with Inscription Formerly Applied in Bronze Letters (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Architrave Block with Inscription Formerly Applied in Bronze Letters (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Architrave Block with Inscription Formerly Applied in Bronze Letters, In Situ (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Architrave Block with Inscription Formerly Applied in Bronze Letters, In Situ (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Architrave block with inscription formerly applied in bronze letters (reused in late antique Spolia Wall): Building inscription mentioning the Roman Senate
- Date
- Julio-Claudian or early Flavian period., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN05.018
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Building Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
] συνκ[λητ- ] vac. . . . . .[
- Inscription Translation
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 05.3
- Locus
- F55 13.1 Locus 3
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, built into late antique Spolia Wall. The block matches another architrave (see below) from the spolia, and their size and style are appropriate for the Wadi B Temple.
- Description
Two-fascia architrave block with inscription applied in bronze letters, now missing; partly trimmed on the top, and broken on the right.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.60, W. of inscription on upper fascia 0.96, H. of letters 0.14–0.17, H. of dowel holes of smaller letters on the lower fascia 0.08–0.09.
- Comments
Building inscription, apparently mentioning, in l. 1, the Roman senate (σύγκλητος). A reconstruction of the indented l. 2 cannot be offered.
In 2016, another portion of that architrave (IN16.018, minimum length: 2.35 m) was unearthed in the same trench. It had been reused upside down in a later foundation, and then further cut by three water pipes that slashed through it. The preserved dowel holes belong to the upper half of the letters of the upper fascia: [- - -] probably five letters, [ca. five letters missing (pipes)], one letter, vacat [- - -]. It seems difficult to identify individual letters. The vacat at the right end of the line, the continuation of which is at present not visible, may indicate that it contained the end of the inscription.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. [Plates 4, 8].
- Author
- GP