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Inscribed Revetment Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Revetment Fragments (from Synagogue, Main Hall): Revetment Inscription, by [- -]asimos, assistant in the archives
- Date
- Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.006
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ - - - ]Ι̣άσιμος βοηθὸς τα[βλαρίου - - - ]
- Inscription Translation
- “[ - - -]asimos, Assistant in the archives [ - - - ]” (Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E38 / N2.50 *97.50 - 97
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall (for further details see the lemmata of nos.
498 and499 ).
- Description
Fragments of wall revetment of white marble, which belonged either to no. 498 or 499 (for further details see the lemmata there). Other insignificant fragments, which are not reproduced here, are given in Kroll, p. 24; Ameling, p. 250, in the commentary on no. 72 (with proposals for supplements); and SEG 51 in a footnote on no. 1635.
- Comments
βοηθὸς τα[βλαρίου]: L. Robert’s supplement apud Kroll, a rendering of Latin adiutor tabularii; see L. Robert, Hellenica II, pp. 119–21 and Ameling’s commentary; also Chr. Marek, “Jesus und Abgar,” in Geschichten und ihre Geschichte, ed. Th. Fuhrer, P. Michel, and P. Stotz (2004), pp. 286–87.
Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 22–24, nos. 13–14(b), with further references; and p. 70, fig. 16 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 251–52, no. 76; SEG 51, 1635E; AE 2001, 1879b).
- Author
- GP