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Wall Mosaic Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Wall Mosaic Fragment (from Synagogue, East Road colonnade): Building? Inscription stating “from the [gifts of Providence…”
- Date
- 4th–5th century AD (Ameling)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Ms63.006.1a-c
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - ] ἐκ τ[ῶν τῆς Προνοίας ? - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “…from the [gifts of Providence…” (Kroll)
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Locus
- Syn FC Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E121 - E122 / N1.2 - N3 *98.5 - 98.2
- Findspot
- Synagogue, East Road colonnade, extreme southern end.
- Description
Fragment of a wall mosaic; letters formed of beige tesserae are set in a field of bright blue ones, bordered above and below with horizontal rows of beige and black.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.14; W. 0.21; H. of letters 0.08.
- Comments
The restored formula has many parallels in the Synagogue inscriptions. On its meaning see the literature referred to in SEG 46, 1518; SEG 48, 1471; and Ameling’s commentary.
Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- A. Th. Kraabel in Stud. on the Jewish Diaspora…, ed. B. Isaac and A. Oppenheimer (1996), p. 77; Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 22, no. 12; and p. 69, fig. 145 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 247–48, no. 71; SEG 51, 1634). Watercolor by L. J. Majewski.
- Author
- GP