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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 3): Revetment Inscription, ex voto (by “same donor”)
- Date
- Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.115
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Κἀμὲ ὁ α[ὐτὸς - - - μετὰ τῆς συ]νβίου αὐ[τ]οῦ κα[ὶ] τῶν [τέκν]ων ἐκ τῶν {Ν} τῆς Προνοία[ς] δομάτω[ν ἐ]ποίησεν.- Inscription Translation
- “And the same (donor) with his wife and children from the gifts of Providence executed me also” (Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E57 / N4 *96.60 - 96.50
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 3, south wall.
- Description
Fragments of nine panels of wall revetment of white marble. On the second panel below the inscription are the remains of a molding (two grooves). The inscription is in one line.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.32, preserved W. 3.43, max. H. of letters 0.075.
- Comments
Ameling thinks that ὁ α[ὐτός] probably refers to the donor Theodoros of no. 505.
- 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. 27, no. 21; and p. 77, fig. 23 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, p. 256, no. 82; SEG 51, 1641).
- Author
- GP