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Inscribed Faceted Column (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Faceted Column: Dedication to Apollon, by the mystai
- Date
- 1st century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN86.013
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Οἱ μύσται τοῦ Ἀπόλλω- νος ἀνέθη- 4 καν.
- Inscription Translation
- “The mystai of Apollon have dedicated (the column).”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-I 86.1
- Locus
- MMS-I 85.1 Locus 75
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E151 - E151.7 / S70 - S71.5
- Findspot
- MMS-I, Room 6 foundations.
- Description
Faceted column, possibly from a Doric stoa or the colonnade of a peristyle court; broken at the top.
- Dimensions
- Min. H. 1.50, min. Diam. 0.70, H. of letters 0.03.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- P. Herrmann, Chiron 26 (1996), pp. 318–19, 342, fig. 2 (SEG 46, 1528).
- Author
- GP