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Inscribed Stele Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele Fragment (with relief): Dedication, by man and his wife
- Date
- 2nd–3rd century AD (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx69.050
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
]ῳ τῇ ἰδίᾳ γυ[ναικί] τὴ]ν στήλλην . [ ]
- Inscription Translation
- “[(Name) dedicated together with - -]on(?), his own wife, the stele [to (name of a deity)].”
- Inscription Comment
- Findspot
- Unknown provenance.
- Description
Lower right fragment of a stele of white marble. The remains of a relief show the lower part of a bare left leg and foot, and the toes of the right foot of a standing person. Below, there is a protruding zone (H. 0.075) bearing the inscription.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.21, W. 0.20, Th. 0.10, H. of letters 0.015.
- Comments
1 -]ῳ τῇ ἰδίᾳ γυ[αικί]: perhaps [σὺν] followed by the dative of a name ending in -ον.
The inscription may have started above the relief. The barefoot person may represent a god: the addressee of the dedication or a divine messenger (as, e.g., in the dedication in Studien zur Kultur und Religion Kleinasiens II, ed. S. Şahin, E. Schwertheim, and J. Wagner [1978 = EPRO 66], pp. 756–61, no. 4, pls. CLXXX–CLXXXIII)?
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP