• m14-487-10
    Mosaic Inscription in Circular Frame (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Mosaic Inscription in circular frame (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 2): Inscription marking the mosaicking of the Synagogue

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 487
Date
After 337–41 AD (date of a coin from beneath the mosaic); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
IN66.002
Material
Mosaic
Object Type
Mosaic, Inscription
Inscription Type
Religious Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		   [ - - - ]
		[ - - - - -  ]
		Τ[ - - - -  ]
	4	Υ[ - -  ὑπὲρ]
		τῶν ἰδ̣[ίων ἐ]-
		  κέν[τησε]-
		      ν.
Inscription Translation
“(Name…on behalf of) his family mosaicked” (Kroll).
Inscription Comment
Site
Sardis
Sector
Syn
Trench
Syn W 66
Locus
Syn MH Pavement
B-Grid Coordinates
E51.7 / N10
Findspot
Synagogue, Main Hall.
Description

Mosaic inscription in a circular frame.

Dimensions
H. 0.35, W. 0.32, H. of letters 0.05–0.07.
Comments

4–5 Kroll; ὑπ[ὲρ εὐχῆς … ἐκ] τῶν ἰδ[ίων], Hanfmann; ὑπ[ὲρ εὐχῆς ἐκ] τῶν ἰδ[ίων], Scheibelreiter.

5–7 Or [ἐ]κέν[τησα]ν, Ameling.

See Also
Bibliography
G. M. A. Hanfmann, BASOR 187 (1967), pp. 29, 36, figs. 47, 51; Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 16, no. 2; p. 62, fig. 7 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 233–34, no. 61; SEG 51, 1627; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, pp. 42–43, no. 9).
Author
GP

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