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Quarry face with boundary inscription. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cliff Face: Rupestral Boundary Inscription marking terminus of quarry property
- Date
- Late antiquity?, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S19.024
- Material
- Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Boundary Stone
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ὅρος
- Inscription Translation
- “Boundary.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Mağara Deresi
- Findspot
- From the marble quarry of the Mağara Deresi, 5 km south of Sardis, between the villages of Başlıoğlu and Şirinyer. In situ.
- Description
Rupestral boundary inscription on the face of a cliff.
- Dimensions
- H. of letters 0.12.
- Comments
“It is reasonable to assume, though not certain, that this inscription marks the terminus of the quarry property” (Bruce).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- W. Bruce, ZPE 191 (2014), pp. 193–94, with reference to C. H. Greenewalt, jr. and M. Rautman, AJA 102 (1998), p. 503; map and photographs (SEG 64, 1194).
- Author
- GP