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Mosaic Inscription in Tabula Ansata (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mosaic Inscription in tabula ansata (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7)
- Date
- Second half of the 4th century AD?; cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN66.028
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ - - - - - ]Υ̣Ε̣[ - - ] [ - - - - - - - - - - - ] [ - - - - ]Β̣[ - - - - ] 4 [ - - ]Κ[ - - - - - - ] [ - - - - - ]ΑΜ[ - - ] [ - - - - ]Ν[ - - - ]
- Inscription Translation
- 3 ]E[: Hanfmann.
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn W 66
- Locus
- Syn MH Pavement
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E87.8 / N9.7
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7, in the medallion of the central mosaic panel.
- Description
- Mosaic inscription, originally in a square tabula ansata. “All tesserae are missing, but several letters have been identified from their imprint in the concrete bedding” (Kroll).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.68, W. 0.68.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- G. M. A. Hanfmann, BASOR 187 (1967), pp. 29, 44–45; cf. ibid., fig. 56 (drawing of full, reconstructed mosaic); Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 19, no. 6 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 240–41, no. 65; SEG 51, 1631; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, p. 51, no. 17).
- Author
- GP