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Maionios mosaic in north portico of marble road: detail from drone (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Aerial view of mosaic in context, showing Synagogue at north, Byzantine Shops, northern foundation of monumental arch, street paving, and fallen blocks of monumental arch. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
General view of mosaic with inscription. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mosaic Inscription in tabula ansata: Building Inscription for Portico under Flavius Maionios
- Date
- Ca. 5th–6th century AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Mos17.001
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Building Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐκεντήθη ὁ ἔ̣[μ]βολο̣ς̣ ἐπὶ Φλ(αβίου) Μαιονίου τοῦ 3 μεγαλο[π]ρ(επεστάτου) κόμ(ητος) κ(αὶ) ὑπατικοῦ.
- Inscription Translation
- “The portico was laid with mosaics under the magnificentissimus count and consularis Flavius Maionios.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- RT
- Trench
- RT 17.1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca. E110.1 - E114.9 / S4.9 - S9.6
- Findspot
- Road Trench, north colonnade of Marble Road, in front of Byzantine Shop E19, running up to the northern foundations of the Monumental Arch.
- Description
Partly damaged mosaic inscription in a tabula ansata.
- Dimensions
- Tabula ansata: H. 0.72; W. 2.84; H. of letters 0.125–0.145.
- Comments
1 See no. 426, 1 comm.
2 The name Μαιόνιος is identical with the ethnic belonging to Μαιονία, the designation originally of all of Lydia, later of a settlement at the upper Hermos River (Turkish Menye, recently replaced by the “unhistoric” name Gökçeören). The personal name occurs in the Christian inscription from Maionia in TAM V 1, 582, spelled Μεονίου (genitive). No (Flavius) Maionios is registered in the PLRE.
3 For the title μεγαλοπρεπέστατος, see R. Delmaire, Byzantion 54 (1984), pp. 157–61.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP