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Inscribed Revetment Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Inscribed Revetment Fragments (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7): Revetment (and Painting?) Inscription, ex voto

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 516

Date

Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman

Sardis or Museum Inv. No.

IN62.037

Material

Marble, Stone

Object Type

Inscription

Inscription Type

Religious Inscription

Inscription language

Greek

Inscription Text

		[ . . . . .  . . . . . ]ς μετὰ τῆς συμβίου μου Ῥηγείνης καὶ τῶν τέκνων ἡμῶν ὑπὲρ
	2	[εὐχῆς ἀπέδ]ωκα ἐκ τῶν δωρεῶν τοῦ παντοκράτορος Θ(εο)ῦ τὴν σκούτλωσιν πᾶσαν
		[τοῦ διαχώρο]υ καὶ τὴν ζωγραφίαν.

Inscription Translation

“[ - - - ]s with my wife Regina and our children, in fulfillment of [a vow], I gave out of the gifts of Almighty God all the revetment [of the bay?] and the painting” (mostly after Kroll).

Inscription Comment

Site

Sardis

Sector

Syn

Trench

RT 62

Locus

Syn MH Above Floor

B-Grid Coordinates

E85 - E87 / N1 - N3 *97.00 - 96.50

Findspot

Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7, south wall.

Description

Fragments of four panels of wall revetment of white marble. The inscription is in three lines.

Dimensions

H. 0.40, preserved W. 2.10, H. of letters 0.06.

Comments

1 τῆς συμβίου μου Ῥηγείνης: for the mention of the wife’s name, see no. 500 comm.

1–2 τέκνων ἡμῶν ὑπὲρ / [εὐχῆς ἀπέδ]ωκα: Kroll, after the addition of a fragment at the right of l. 1; τέκνων μ̣[ου ca. 7 letters? / [ . . . . . . . ἔδ]ωκα, Robert and editions depending on him.

2 [ἀπέδ]ωκα ἐκ τῶν δωρεῶν τοῦ παντοκράτορος Θ(εο)ῦ τὴν σκούτλωσιν…: “…toute fortune est un don de Dieu” (J. and L. Robert, BE 1984, 533, quoting the inscription, together with Jewish and Christian parallels).

3 [τοῦ διαχώρο]υ: Kroll, Ameling; [τοῦ οἴκο]υ, Robert (p. 51: “οἶκος est le terme employé à la synagogue…et il s’applique…à la salle d’assemblée”) and editions depending on him.

See Also

Bibliography

Partial edition: L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, pp. 48–53, no. 7, pl. vi. Full edition: Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 30–31, no. 29; and p. 84, fig. 31, with reference to further previous editions, most of which are less complete; see below on ll. 1–2 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 261–63, no. 90; SEG 51, 1646).

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