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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 4): Revetment Inscription, ex voto, by Leontios, Godfearer
- Date
- 5th–6th century AD (Bonz); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.126
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Καί μαι ὁ αὐτὸς Λεόντιος ἐκ τῶν δομάτων [τ]ῆς Προνοίης ἐποίησεν.
- Inscription Translation
- “And the same Leontios from the gifts of Providence executed me also.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E63 - E64 / N1.70 - N1.90 *96.25 - 96.00
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 4. south wall.
- Description
Panel of wall revetment of white marble, broken in many fragments, some of which are missing.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.34, W. 0.78, H. of letters 0.045–0.065.
- Comments
1 μαι: read με. - ὁ αὐτὸς Λεόντιος: see no. 509.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- M. Palmer Bonz, HSCP 96 (1994), pp. 292–93 (SEG 45, 1648); A. Th. Kraabel in Stud. on the Jewish Diaspora…, ed. B. Isaac and A. Oppenheimer (1996), p. 77; Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 27–28, no. 23; and p. 79, fig. 25 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, p. 257, no. 84).
- Author
- GP