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Mosaic Inscription in Rectangular Frame (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mosaic Inscription in rectangular frame (from Synagogue, Forecourt): Votive Inscription by Aurelios Polyhippos, Godfearer
- Date
- After 351–61 AD (date of the latest coins from beneath the mosaic)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
- Museum Inventory No.
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.300
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Αὐρ. leaf Πολύιππος θεοσεβὴς εὐ- 4 ξάμενος ἐ- πλήρωσα.
- Inscription Translation
- “Aur(elios) Polyhippos, Godfearer, having made a vow, I fulfilled it” (Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn FC Pavement
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E95.58 - E96.17 / N13.48 - N14.21
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Forecourt, western side, center of panel W4.
- Description
Mosaic inscription in a rectangular frame.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.42, W. 0.60. H. of letters 0.06.
- Comments
1 AYP followed by a mark of abbreviation.
3 θεοσεβής: see B. Wander, Gottesfürchtige und Sympathisanten (1998), pp. 110–11; S. Mitchell, “Wer waren die Gottesfürchtigen?” Chiron 28 (1998), pp. 55–64.
Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 39, no. 5, pl. IV; with fuller bibliography: Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 20, no. 8; and p. 65, fig. 11 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 241–42, no. 67; AE 2001, 1875; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, pp. 46–48, no. 13, fig. 21).
- Author
- GP