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Inscribed Plaque Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Plaque Fragments (from Synagogue, Main Hall): Votive Inscription, by Zenon
- Date
- 4th–6th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.051
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ζή[νων] - - - - x+2 ε̣ὐ̣χ̣ὴ̣ν̣ ἀπέδωκα.
- Inscription Translation
- “Ze[non - - - ] I repaid a vow” (Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E42 / N10 *96.50
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, upper fragment from near the center of the apse; lower fragment from near the center of Bay 1.
- Description
“The upper left and the bottom fragments of a single plaque” of white marble (Kroll). Letters have traces of red paint. The plaque “was probably attached to one of the furnishings that were clustered at the middle of the western end of the Main Hall” (Kroll).
- Dimensions
- H. of bottom fragment 0.11, W. 0.21, H. of letters 0.055.
- Comments
1 Ζή[νων]: Kroll; other names in Ζη- are possible (Ameling).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 43–44, no. 68; and p. 117, fig. 70 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 289–90, no. 134; SEG 51, 1670).
- Author
- GP