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Inscribed Stele Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele Fragment (with relief): Dedication, by Euprepes
- Date
- 1st–2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.001
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Εὐπρέπης ἐκ τῶν ἰδίων [ - - - ].
- Inscription Translation
- “Euprepes (made the dedication) from his own means.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB 62
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E10 / S78.5 *100.70
- Findspot
- House of Bronzes, Room 17.
- Description
Lower left corner of a marble stele; elsewhere broken. In a recess are preserved the remains of a relief: two legs of a table(?) and two human feet. The inscription is under the relief. Irregular letters (lunate three-bar sigma).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.22, W. 0.43, Th. 0.13, H. of letters 0.015.
- Comments
For the name Εὐπρέπης, Herrmann refers to L. Robert, RA II (1929), p. 39 (= Op. Min. I, p. 706); he considers that in the lost part of the inscription, the deity, to whom the dedication was made, was named with εὐχήν or ἀνέθηκεν following.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP