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Inscribed Block in the Manisa Museum, photograph scanned from Malay. (From Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, fig. 1.)
Inscribed Block: Record of donations to the Temple of Artemis?
- Date
- “Early first century BC” (Malay)., Hellenistic
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 125
- Museum Inventory No.
- 125
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 125
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - - - - Μενέδ̣[ημος ca. 3 ]- ωνος, κρίσι δὲ Μ[ε]- νεδήμου, καὶ Ἀλέ- 4 ξαρχος Στρατίππου καὶ Παυσανίας Παυ- σανίου νεωποῖαι.
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] the neopoiai Mened[emos, natural son of - -]on, through adoption by judgement son of Menedemos, and Alexarchos, son of Stratippos, and Pausanias, son of Pausanias.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Probably from Sardis.
- Description
Lower section of a block of marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.40, W. 0.44, Th. 0.16, H. of letters 0.025.
- Comments
2 The formula κρίσ(ε)ι δὲ, etc., apparently referring to an adoption by judgement, seems to be without parallel (Malay).
3–4 Malay points to Sardis VII 1, no. 93 (dated approximately in the early first century BC) where Alexarchos, son of Stratippos, is named as priest of Roma and as stephanephoros.
The inscription “seems to record some donations (to the temple of Artemis?) by some persons…who seem to have played an active role in the religious life at Sardis” (Malay). For the neopoiai, Malay refers to Sardis VII 1, no. 1, col. I, 2 and II, 6; M. Rostovtzeff, AnatStudRamsay, pp. 384–87; and P. Debord, Aspects sociaux, p. 260.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 28, no. 11, pl. 1, fig. 1.
- Author
- GP