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Inscribed Revetment Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Plaque Fragments (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7): Votive Inscription, by a goldsmith(?)
- Date
- Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.069
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ . . . . . . χρ]υσο- [χόος τ]ὴν εὐ- 3 [χ]ὴ̣ν̣ [ἀπέ]δω[κ]α̣. leaf
- Inscription Translation
- “[ - - - ] goldsmith(?), I repaid the vow.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E90 / N9.5
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 7, in front and south of northern shrine.
- Description
Fragments of a plaque of white marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.34, Th. 0.008, preserved W. of the fragments 0.49, H. of letters 0.05.
- Comments
Kroll’s supplements; he points out that the space available does not admit the names of the goldsmiths Πηγάσιος (see no. 512) or Αὐρ. Ἑρμογένης (no. 524) as a restoration. Ameling considers the possibility that the letters ΥΣΟ (l. 1) belonged to a personal name.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 34, no. 36; and p. 91, fig. 38 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 267–68, no. 97; SEG 51, 1653).
- Author
- GP