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Inscribed Revetment Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
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.
- IN63.027
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Αὐρ. Εὐφρόσυνος [β´ Σαρδ. βου]λ. τὸ περιμασχαλον 2 ἐκ τῶν τῆς [Προνοία]ς ἐσκούτλω[σα].
- Inscription Translation
- “Aur(elios) Euphrosynos, [son of Aurelios Euphrosynos, citizen of Sardis, councilor], from the gifts of Providence, I gave the revetment of the perimaschalon.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E40 - E45 / N2 - N8 *97.50 - 96.50
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 1.
- Description
Fragments of three (of four) panels of wall revetment of white marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.38, preserved W. 1.84, H. of letters 0.12.
- Comments
Marks of abbreviation are preserved after Αὐρ. and βουλ.
1 On the identity of the dedicant, see no. 518, 2 comm. - For the interpretation of the hapax legomenon περιμασχαλον either as “enclosure of a lustral basin” or as “corner,” see Kroll’s and Ameling’s commentaries; cf. also Petzl on TAM V 3, 1879, 9–10.
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,” pp. 24–25, no. 17; and p. 73, fig. 19 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 253–54, no. 78; SEG 51, 1637; AE 2001, 1882).
- Author
- GP