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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, by a councilor
- Date
- Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD; 5th–6th century AD? (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.095
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ . . . . . . . . . . . Σ]αρδ. βο[υλ.] [ἐκ τῶν τῆς Προν]οίας τὸ [διά]- [χωρον (?) ἐσκούτλ]ωσα. leaf
- Inscription Translation
- “[ - - - ] citizen of Sardis, councilor, [from the gifts of] Providence, I gave the revetment [of the bay?].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E68 - E70 / N1.10 *97.30 - 97.00
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 4, south wall.
- Description
Fragment of a panel of wall revetment of white marble; broken on all sides except for the upper edge.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.22, W. 0.18, max. H. of letters 0.055
- Comments
1 [Σ]αρδ. (mark of abbreviation) βο[υλ(ευτής)]: see no. 488, 4–5 comm.
2 τὸ [διάχωρον(?)]: Kroll; see no. 509, 3 comm.; Ameling considers also, e.g., τὸ [διαχώρημα ἐπλήρ]ωσα.
- 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. 28, no. 24; and p. 79, fig. 26 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, p. 258, no. 85; SEG 51, 1642).
- Author
- GP