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Fragmentary Mosaic (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Fragmentary Mosaic (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7): Votive Inscription by Hilasios
- Date
- Second half of the 4th century AD?, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.311
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Εὐχὴ] Εἱλασί̣[ου].
- Inscription Translation
- “[Vow of] Hilasios.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn MH Pavement
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E84 / N14.30
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7, within the western border of the northern lateral panel of the central mosaic.
- Description
Fragmentary mosaic.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.13, W. 0.60, H. of letters 0.125.
- Comments
L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 47 n. 2 refers to other Greek-Jewish inscriptions mentioning the name Ἱλάσιος (here written Εἱλ-); “le nom évoquait, je crois, la ‘supplication’, ἱλάσκεσθαι, ἱλαστήριον, ce groupe de mots qui a trouvé son plus large emploi dans la Septante et dans le Nouveau Testament….” He also points to “ἱλάσκεσθαι dans les inscriptions religieuses de la Lydie”; see the indices s.v. in Petzl, Beichtinschriften, p. 157 and Malay and Petzl, New Religious Texts, p. 228; also Ameling’s commentary.
Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 19, no. 7, with further references; and p. 64, fig. 10 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, p. 241, no. 66, with further references; SEG 51, 1632; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, pp. 50–51, no. 16, with fig. 24).
- Author
- GP