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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): Inscription by Aurelios - -]anthi[os], citizen of Sardis
- Date
- After 367–75 AD (date of the two latest coins from beneath the mosaic)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.297
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Αὐρ. -]άνθι- [ος Σα]ρδια- [νὸς ἐ]ποίησα.
- Inscription Translation
- “[Aurelios - -]anthi[os], citizen of Sardis, I executed it” (Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn FC Pavement
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E95.53 - E95.94 / N2.72 - N3.16
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Forecourt, southwestern corner, center of panel W1.
- Description
Mosaic inscription in a rectangular frame.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.44, W. 0.59, H. of letters 0.08.
- Comments
1 [Αὐρ. Εὐ]ανθι[ …]: Kroll (to whom the other supplements are owed, [ἐ]ποίησα was mentioned by L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 47). The restoration of [Αὐρ(ήλιος)] is not compulsory (Ameling, Scheibelreiter). - [Αὐρ. ]ανθι[ ]: Ameling, who points—apart from other possible names—to [Χρυσ]άνθι[ος] (for Sardians bearing that name see here nos. 693–695 and PLRE I, pp. 202–3; cf. Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 71, no. 176, 6: Χρύσανθος): a good candidate for a city where the Chrysanthina was one of the main festivals (see the commentaries on SEG 31, 1044; SEG 45,1641; and Sardis VII 1, no. 77, 13–14).
Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 21–22, no. 11, with further references; and p. 68, fig. 14 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 246–47, no. 70, with further references; SEG 51, 1633; AE 2001, 1878; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, p. 44, no. 10, fig. 24; SEG 56, 1341).
- Author
- GP