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Inscribed Tabula Ansata in Raised Relief (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed tabula ansata fragment in raised relief (from Synagogue, Main Hall): Votive Inscription affixed to Torah Shrine?
- Date
- Late 4th–6th century AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN00.002
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ ] [ ] 3 leaf ὑπὲρ εὐ[χῆς ]
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] on account of a vow [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E43 / N14 *96.75 - 96.50
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, east of apse.
- Description
- Lower left corner fragment of a tabula ansata of white marble similar to no. 550; broken on top and right. Three registers of the inscription stood within four horizontal lines. The recessed background had been painted in red.
- Dimensions
- H. ca. 0.10, W. 0.25, Th. 0.023, H. of letters 0.05.
- Comments
3 Kroll (SEG) and Ameling proposed ὑπὲρ [ὑγείας or εὐχῆς or σωτηρίας]. A new joining fragment added to the right side (see the photo) leads to the text given above.
Kroll points out that the tabula ansata to which the fragment belongs could have been affixed to the other of the two “Torah shrines” (see the lemma of no. 550); the donor of no. 550, Memnonios, was perhaps mentioned here, too.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 41, no. 64; and p. 114, fig. 66 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, p. 286, no. 130; SEG 51, 1673).
- Author
- GP