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Inscribed Block in situ (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block (reused in Building D): Building Inscription mentioning Emperor Arcadius
- Date
- 398 AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN00.010
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Building Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - - - - - - - - - ] Αὐτοκράτορος Ἀρκ[αδίου ] Δωσιθέου τοῦ Λ[ τὴν] ἐπι]γραφὴν ποιησαμέν[ου ὑπ(ατείας)] 4 Ὁνω]ρίου τὸ δ´ καὶ Εὐτ[υχιανοῦ ]ΟC̣ τῇ πρὸ Ε[ . . . ]Λ[ ἐ]πιστασίας Ἰοβειν[
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] of the emperor Arcadius [- - - the] inscription was made by Dositheos [- - - when] Honorius for the fourth time and Eutychianus [officiated as consuls - - -] ante diem(?) [- - -] presidency Iovinus[- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Bldg D
- Findspot
- Building D, reused in middle pier on south side.
- Description
Reused block.
- Dimensions
- H. 1.17, W. 1.27, Th. 0.32, H. of letters 0.07–0.085.
- Comments
The line divisions given here are arbitrary.
2 ] Δωσιθέου τοῦ λ[αμπροτάτου?
3–4 The fourth consulate of Honorius and Eutychianus corresponds to 398 AD (P. Herrmann, in a letter from September 27, 2000 to Greenewalt): R. S. Bagnall, A. Cameron, S. R. Schwartz, and K. A. Worp, Consuls of the Later Roman Empire (1987), p. 661 (SEG 37, 1825).
5 Part of a date, πρὸ ἐ[ννέ]α̣?
6 Iovinus: For persons of the fourth–fifth centuries bearing this name see A. H. M. Jones, J. R. Martindale, and J. Morris, PLRE I (1971), pp. 461–63; J. R. Martindale, PLRE II (1980), pp. 621–22.
Herrmann supposes that the text was longer than preserved and belonged to a larger ensemble.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished; from a drawing by C. H. Greenewalt, jr.
- Author
- GP