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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 2): Revetment Inscription, ex voto
- Date
- Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.045
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - ἐκ τῶν τῆς Πρ]ονοίη̣[ς εὐ]ξάμενος ἐτέλε[σα].
- Inscription Translation
- “[ - - - from the gifts] of Providence, having made a vow, [I] completed it” (Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E40 - E41 / N1.20 - N2 *96.75
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 2, south wall.
- Description
Fragments of two panels of wall revetment of white marble. On the second panel there is the upper left part of a rectangular molding (three grooves). The inscription is in one line.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.28, preserved W. 0.88, H. of letters max. 0.057.
- Comments
ἐτέλε[σα]: or -[σεν], -[σαν] (Ameling).
- 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. 26, no. 19; and p. 75, fig. 21 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, p. 255, no. 80; SEG 51, 1639).
- Author
- GP