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Inscribed Revetment Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Panel Fragments (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bays 3 and 7): Votive? Inscription, by Leontios
- Date
- Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.169
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Κἀμὲ ὁ α]ὐτὸς Λεόν[τιος - - - ]
- Inscription Translation
- “The same Leontios…also (executed?) me” (Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E87 - E89 / N12 - N14 *96.80 - 96.40
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bays 3 and 7.
- Description
Fragments of two non-joining segments of a panel of white marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.26, W. 0.64, H. of letters 0.095.
- Comments
“The full text will have been similar to [nos. 507 and 508] of Bay 3. Because of the size and character of its letters, however, the present fragment cannot belong with either of these” (Kroll).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- M. Palmer Bonz, HSCP 96 (1994), pp. 292–93 (SEG 45, 1649); Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 35, no. 39; and p. 94, fig. 41 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, p. 269, no. 100).
- Author
- GP