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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 7): Revetment Inscription, ex voto, by [Pe?]gasios
- Date
- Second half of the 5th century AD or later (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.082
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Πη?]γ̣άσιος β´ Σαρδ. μ[ετὰ τ]ῆς συν[βίου - -]Μ̣Α ἅμα τ[αῖς ν]ίνναις ὑπὲ[ρ] εὐ- χῆς ἐσκούτλω̣[σ]α εἰς κόσμον τοῦ οἴκ(ου).
- Inscription Translation
- “[Pe?]gasios(, son of [Pe?]gasios), citizen of Sardis, with his wife [ - - - ], together with his aunts(?), in fulfillment of a vow I gave the revetment for the ornamentation of the hall” (mostly after Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E88 - E90 / N9 *96.30
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7, east wall.
- Description
Fragments of six (or more) panels of wall revetment of white marble. The inscription is in one line. The letters are narrow and of varying shapes.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.41, preserved W. of inscribed fragments 2.97, H. of letters 0.10.
- Comments
Marks of abbreviation after Σαρδ. and above the κ of οἴκ(ου).
[Πη]γ̣άσιος, Robert (no. 17); see nos. 512 and 513, preferred to Kroll’s restoration by D. Feissel, BE 2002, 614; [Ἱπ?]πάσιος: Kroll, with reference to Ἱππασίου (genitive), no. 540 (Ameling; SEG); Feissel underlines that the normal nominative of the latter name would be Ἱππασίας. - συν[βίου - -]Μ̣Α: my reading from the photograph. Is - -MA the ending of the genitive of the wife’s name? συν[βίο]υ̣ ἅ̣μα {ἅμα} Kroll (SEG); συν[βίου] ἅμα {ἅμα} Ameling. - τ[αῖς ν]ίνναις: Kroll says “I suspect that the spelling is…a variant of νάννη (῾aunt᾽),” with reference to ἡ νίν(ν)η, IG X 2, 617 and 624, the proposed translations of which (“grandmother” or “mother-in-law,” LSJ; Kroll considers “sister-in-law”) do not fit the present context. One would expect the mention of children rather than of aunts. - For οἶκος, see no. 516, 3 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Partial edition, in parts superseded by new readings: L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 50, no. 8; pp. 51–52, no. 8b; p. 54, no. 10; p. 55, no. 17, pls. VIII and IX. Full edition: Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 32–33, no. 33, with further references; and p. 88, fig. 35 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 265–66, no. 94, with further references; SEG 51, 1650).
- Author
- GP