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Inscribed Altar (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Altar: Votive Altar Dedication
- Date
- 2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S96.001
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Altar, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Εὐχὴν ΛΕΙ̣ΜΩΝ̣̣ . . . Ι Με- 4 λίσχος leaf
- Inscription Translation
- “Vow Leimon(?) - - - Melischos.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS/S
- Trench
- MMS/S 96.2
- Locus
- MMS/S 96.2 Locus 3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E105.7 / S123.50 *111.097
- Description
Altar of white marble, partly damaged. There are moldings above (with acroteria) and below.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.41, max. W. 0.18, Th. 0.18, H. of letters 0.01–0.015.
- Comments
1–2 ΛΕΙ̣ΜΩΝ/. . . Ι: Is this the name of the addressee of the ex-voto? Or is it another dedicant (cf. the personal name Λειμών in Pausanias VIII 53, 2), plus some enigmatic letters, traces of which are preserved?
3–4 Μελίσχος instead of Μελίσκος (the latter name being attested in Anthologia Palatina VI 82); for the interchange of -σκ- and-σχ-, see the commentaries on IGSK 23 (Smyrna), no. 443b, 1; Petzl, Beichtinschriften, nos. 5, 7–8; and 7, 3–4; and TAM V 3, 1843, 4.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP