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Inscribed Fragment of Closure Slab (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragment of Closure Slab: Building Inscription? Mentioning an archidiakonos
- Date
- 6th century AD (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN73.011
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Building Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
]τος ἀρχιδιάκον̣[ος
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] archidiakonos [- - -]”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN/E
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W218.5 / S362 *91
- Findspot
- Pactolus North, Church EA. “The fragment cannot be related to Church EA with certainty, for it may have been brought to the site at a later period” (G. M. A. Hanfmann and H. Buchwald in SPRT, p. 288 n. 23).
- Description
Fragment of a closure slab of marble that was decorated with a cross. The inscription is on the upper part of the molding.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.15, W. 0.23, Th. 0.05, H. of letters 0.025.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Buchwald, R6, p. 120, no. 7.6, figs. 299–300.
- Author
- GP