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Inscribed Base: Dedication of Statue of Hera by Iulia Lydia, granddaughter of Sokrates Pardalas (who built temple and set up original statue)

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 440

Date

20–30 AD (Hanfmann and Ramage)., Roman

Sardis or Museum Inv. No.

IN63.123

Material

Marble, Stone

Object Type

Statue Base, Inscription

Inscription Type

Religious Inscription

Inscription language

Greek

Inscription Text

	Σωκράτης Πολεμαίου
	Παρδαλᾶς τὸν ναὸν κατε-
	σκεύασεν καὶ τὴν Ἥραν ἀνέ-
    4	θηκεν·v Ιουλία Λυδία ἡ ὑωνὴ
	αὐτοῦ μετὰ τὸν σεισμὸν
	ἐπεσκεύασεν.

Inscription Translation

“Sokrates Pardalas, son of Polemaios, built the temple and erected the (statue of) Hera. Iulia Lydia, his granddaughter, restored it after the earthquake.”

Inscription Comment

Site

Sardis

Sector

Syn

Trench

Syn 63

Locus

Syn MH Spolia

B-Grid Coordinates

E94 / N9 ca. *97

Findspot

Synagogue, Main Hall, built into the lower part of the crosswall east of the southern “shrine.”

Description

Base of marble with moldings on the upper and lower edges; partly damaged. On the upper surface there is a recess for the plinth of a statue.

Dimensions

H. 0.435, W. 0.71–0.73, Th. 0.63, H. of letters 0.02.

Comments

1–2 Herrmann (ms.) comments in detail on the (certain and doubtful) attestations for Sokrates Pardalas (who lived in the middle or the third quarter of the first century BC), his father Polemaios (probably Polemaios Keras(e)i; see no. 600, 1), and the family connections. For Sokrates Pardalas, see Sardis VII 1, nos. 22; 91 (ἐπὶ [ἱ]-

ερέως Σωκράτους τοῦ Πολεμαίου Παρδαλᾶ); 122; and no. 601, 4. See the detailed discussions in Herrmann, Chiron 26 (1996), pp. 324 n. 29, 325 n. 32; and U. Laffi, Il trattato fra Sardi ed Efeso degli anni 90 A.C. (2010), pp. 93–95 (SEG 60, 1330 III, on ll. 34–36). For ΣΩΚΡΑ on coins, see L. Robert, REA 62 (1960), p. 346 n. 2 (= Op. Min. II, p. 862). Elsewhere in his manuscript, Herrmann discusses the question of a possible relationship between Sokrates Pardalas and the Pardalas mentioned in Sardis VII 1, no. 127, with references to Chr. Habicht, AvP VIII.3, no. 142; C. P. Jones, Plutarch and Rome (1971), p. 117 n. 52; B. Holtheide, Röm. Bürgerrechtspolitik und röm. Neubürger in der Provinz Asia (1983), pp. 47, 157 nn. 275–77. Herrmann considers that the father of the ἀρχιερεὺς καὶ διὰ βίου ἀγωνοθέτης θεᾶς Ῥώμης Γάιος Ἰούλιος, Παρδαλᾶ καὶ τοῦ Δήμου τοῦ Σαρδιανῶν υἱός, Παρδαλᾶς, mentioned in an inscription from Hypaipa (OGI 470 II 4–8 = IGSK 17, 2, no. 3825, 9–11; see Campanile, Sacerdoti, pp. 48–49), may have been Sokrates Pardalas. An inscription dated to 18 BC, which was discovered by H. Malay in the territory of Maionia (Emre), starts with the words ἐπὶ ἀρχιιερέως Καίσαρος Σεβαστοῦ̣ Γαΐου Ἰουλίου Ἀσκληπιάδου, Σωκράτους Παρδαλᾶ υἱοῦ, Σαρδιανοῦ (Malay and Petzl, New Religious Texts, no. 195, 1–3). It seems that both brothers, C. Iulius Pardalas and C. Iulius Asklepiades, officiated as archiereis. - For the name Pardalas, see L. Robert, Noms indig., p. 172 and CRAI 1975, p. 320 n. 47 (= Op. Min. V, p. 499). CIL XVI 7, extr., tab. II, l. 18 (cf. Dessau, ILS 1988), Ti. Iulius Pardala Sard(ianus), on a military diploma from 68 AD.

5–6 The earthquake is the famous one from 17 AD (see no. 414 comm.); the restoration included the re-erection of the Hera statue on a new base.

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