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Inscribed Reventment Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Revetment Fragments (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Apse): (Building?) Inscription for Ornamentation of Revetment, by a councilor and his son, Zenon
- Date
- Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.017
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[- - - Σαρ]δ̣ιανὸς βο[υλευτ]ὴς κὲ ὁ υἱὸς αὐτοῦ Ζ̣ή̣ν̣ων τὸν κόσμον τῆς σκουτλώσεως [ἐ]πλήρωσαν. leaf
- Inscription Translation
- “[ - - - ] citizen of Sardis, councilor, and his son Zenon executed the ornament of the revetment.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E36 / N12 - N14 *97.25 - 97
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, apse. “The total length of wall that the three inscriptions [nos. 498–500] filled could not have been less than 20 m, which is…about right for the distance from the south to the north corner via the circumference of the hemicycle (23.4 m)” (Kroll). “the total length of wall that the three inscriptions [nos. 498–500] filled could not have been less than 20 m, which is…about right for the distance from the south to the north corner via the circumference of the hemicycle (23.4 m)” (Kroll). The inscription is in one line. “About half of the letters retain traces of red filling paint” (Kroll).
- Description
Fragments of white marble wall revetment.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.40, Th. 0.01–0.03, H. of letters 0.13.
- Comments
[Σαρ]δ̣ιανὸς βο[υλευτ]ής: see no. 488, 4–5 comm.
On σκούτλωσις, see L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, pp. 50–51; SEG 51 refers to SEG 51, 1646 (= here no. 516) and 2161.
For further fragments belonging to no. 498 or no. 499, see nos. 501 and 502.
Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 22–23, no. 13, with further references; and pp. 70–71, figs. 16–17 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 248–50, no. 72; SEG 51, 1635A).
- Author
- GP