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Mosaic Inscription in Square Frame (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mosaic Inscription in square frame (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 6): Votive Inscription by Paulos, “companion/count”
- Date
- After 341–46 AD (date of the latest coins from beneath the mosaic); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Ms71.A1
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Εὐχὴ Π̣α̣ύλου κόμη- 4 τος.
- Inscription Translation
- “Vow of Paulos, comes.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 71
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E77.80 - E78.00 / N10 ca. *96.50
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 6, within the western border of the central mosaic panel.
- Description
Mosaic inscription in a square frame.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.42, W. 0.47, H. of letters 0.085–0.10.
- Comments
Ameling offers a developed commentary on the title comes (“companion” or “count,” Kroll).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 18–19, no. 5, with further references; and p. 64, fig. 9 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 239–40, no. 64, with further references; SEG 51, 1630; AE 2001, 1874; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, pp. 49–50, no. 15, fig. 23).
- Author
- GP