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Inscribed Revetment Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Revetment Fragments (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 1): Revetment Inscription, by Aurelios Euphrosynos
- Date
- First quarter of the 5th century AD? (Ameling)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.303
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Α]ὐρ. Εὐφρόσυνος β´ Σαρδ. βουλ. 2 [ἐ]κ τῶν {των} [τ]ῆς Προνοίας ἐσκ[ούτλωσα].- Inscription Translation
- “Aur(elios) Euphrosynos, son of Aurelios Euphrosynos, citizen of Sardis, councilor, from the gifts of Providence, I gave the revetment.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E40 / N18 *98.00
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 1, northwest and southwest corners.
- Description
Fragments of two panels of wall revetment of white marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.36, preserved W. 1.57, H. of letters 0.09–0.10.
- Comments
1 On the identity of the dedicant, see no. 518, 2 comm. - Σαρδ. (mark of abbreviation preserved) βουλ.: see no. 488, 4–5.
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. 24, no. 16; and p. 72, fig. 18 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 252–53, no. 77; SEG 51, 1636; AE 2001, 1881).
- Author
- GP