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Inscribed Damaged Base (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Damaged Base: Dedication; reused as tomb marker?
- Date
- (According to letter shape): (a) 1st–2nd century AD; (b) later Roman Imperial period., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx64.008a
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
face (a) - - - - [ ]. [ [.]ΑΙΑΝ[ τῶν τέκν̣[ων 4 κ̣αθιέρωσεν̣. vac. face (b) ΛΟΥΚΙΑ[ . . ] Φιλόπα[π]- πος Ο̣ΡΒ[ ]- 4 ΛΩΝ ἐποί̣[η]- σεν τὸ ΚΡΙΝ̣[ ] ΕΝ vac.
- Inscription Translation
- (a) “[- - - he / she] consecrated [- - - together with(?)] the children.”
(b) “[For?] Lukia[ ] Philopappos Orb[ - ]lon has made what had been decided(?).” - Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sazköy
- Findspot
- North of the Gygaean Lake.
- Description
- Partly damaged base of local marble; parts of the upper and lower molding are preserved. The remains of the last four lines of the first inscription are preserved on the front face (a): H. of letters 0.025. In a later reuse of the base, the left face (b) was inscribed (H. of letters 0.02–0.04). The underside has been hollowed out like a dome.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.88, W. 0.36, Th. 0.33; (a): H. of letters 0.025; (b) H. of letters 0.02–0.04.
- Comments
(a) My reading.
2–3 Perhaps [μετὰ] τῶν τέκν̣[ων].
(b) 1–6 The character of the inscription is unclear. Had Φιλόπα[π]πος, with the second (indigenous?) name Ορβ[ - ]λων, “made what had been decided” (perhaps a tomb, according to a testamentary stipulation?) for Lukianos/-ne (Λουκια[νῷ]/Λουκια[νῇ])? Or are three persons enumerated who made (for the verb in singular with subjects in plural, see no. 339, 1–2 comm.) “what had been decided” (by a deity?)? As it would be unusual to have such an enumeration starting with a female name, l. 1 could perhaps be restored to Λουκια[νός] (perhaps too long) or Λουκία[ς] (male, cf. IGSK 16 [Ephesos], no. 2200,1), but a female name (Λουκία, Λουκια[νή], Λουκία[ς]) is not to be excluded.
5–6 Perhaps τὸ κριν[θ]έν, influenced by Homeric κρινθέντες (Ν 129; cf. θ 48), instead of τὸ κριθέν, “what has been decided.”
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP