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Inscribed Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragments (from Synagogue, Forecourt peristyle): Votive? Inscription
- Date
- Hardly before the end of the 4th century AD, perhaps later (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.266
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
(left) 1 or 2 ]ΣΟΦ̣ .[ (right) 1 ]ώτατος[ 2 ]Π̣Ι̣⟦ . . . Ι̣Ι̣⟧[
- Inscription Translation
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn FC Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E100 - E111 / N15 - N16 *98.00 - 97.50
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Forecourt peristyle.
- Description
Two segments of marble.
- Dimensions
- Max. H. 0.24, H. of letters 0.11; the left one broken all around (W. 0.29), the right one broken below (W. 0.52).
- Comments
1 Kroll thinks that it is “possible that the two fragments were adjacent” and proposes the restoration [ὁ] σοφώτατος (“the most learned”) for that case; it seems to me that after the fragmentary Φ there are the remains of a letter that would make that restoration impossible. For that case Kroll attributed the letters ΣΟΦ to the donor’s name. In l. 1 of the right fragment Robert considered the honorific title [ὁ ἀξιολογ]ώτατος (see no. 359, 1–3 comm.).
2 My reading; ]ΤΙ | | | [ . ] Υ | | [ edd.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Partial edition: L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 56, no. 19 (only the right fragment), pl. X. Full edition: Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 37, no. 45; and p. 98, fig. 47 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 275–76, no. 111; SEG 51, 1656 [2]).
- Author
- GP