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Inscribed Revetment Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Revetment Fragments (from Synagogue, Forecourt and Main Hall): (Building?) Inscription for Ornamentation of Revetment
- Date
- Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.024
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ - - - κὲ ἡ σύμβιος αὐτοῦ] Αὐρηλία ΕΝ[ - - - ]ΝΟΥΤ[ - - τὸν κόσμον τῆς σκουτλώ]σ̣εως ἐ[πλήρωσαν].- Inscription Translation
- “[ - - - and his wife] Aurelia En[ - - - executed the ornament of the] revetment.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E110 - E112 / N2 - N7 *97.00 - 96.75
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Forecourt and Main Hall. “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 wall revetment of white marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.40, Th. 0.01–0.03, H. of letters 0.13.
- Comments
Ameling stresses the fact that the name of a female donor is given here (there is no plausible supplement for En[ ] or Hen[ ]); in the Jewish inscriptions from Sardis they are normally mentioned anonymously together with their husbands, but see Regina in no. 516.
Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 22–23, no. 15, with further references; and p. 70, fig. 16 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 248–51, no. 74; SEG 51, 1635C; AE 2001, 1880).
- Author
- GP