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Inscribed Circular Basin Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Circular Basin Fragments: Dedication to Apollon
- Date
- 1st century BC–1st century AD (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.131
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[- - - τὰ νά]μ̣ατα τ̣ῷ Ἀ̣πόλλ[ων]ι ἀνέ̣[θηκ- - - -]
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] have / has dedicated [the basin] to Apollon [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E60 - E56 / N2 - N6
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall.
- Description
Two joining pieces of the edge of a circular basin of white marble; broken on the left, rear, and right. The inscription is on the smoothed edge.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.065, W. 0.36, Th. 0.14, H. of letters 0.006–0.013.
- Comments
The supplement [τὰ νά]μ̣ατα, “spring,” is owed to A. Chaniotis, who points to the epigraphic attestation R. Merkelbach and J. Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten 3 (2001), pp. 406–7, no. 16/61/05 (Antiochia ad Pisidiam), verse 2: Νυμφῶν χορηγεῖ τῇ πόλει τὰ νάματα. Herrmann had suggested that the basin, to which the fragments belong, was the object of the dedication. For perirrhanteria (“basins”), he adduced L. Robert, Hellenica XI–XII (1960), p. 483, with n. 6 and pl. XXIX 2, with reference to I.Didyma, no. 346, 12.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP