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Inscribed Fragments of Menorah Crossbar (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Fragments of Menorah Crossbar (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragments of Menorah Crossbar (from Synagogue, Main Hall), by Sokrates
- Date
- About the final phase of the Synagogue (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S63.050
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
(a) Σωκράτης [ - - - - το]ῦ οἴκου [ - - - - ] (b) [ - - - ]ΣΙ[ - - - - - - - - γ]λύφου.
- Inscription Translation
- (a) “Sokrates [ - - - ] of the house (i.e., the synagogue) [ - - - ]”
(b) “[ - - - ] of the sculptor.” - Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E58.6 - E59.1 / N4.2 *96.55 - 96.40
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall (for the different findspots of the fragments, see Kroll).
- Description
Two non-joining fragments (a, b) of the crossbar of a marble menorah.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.07, Th. 0.065, restored L. ca. 1, H. of letters 0.032.
- Comments
(b) [λιθογ]λύφου?, considered by Hanfmann in R2, see Ameling, p. 291.
- See Also
- See also: R2, No. 226.
- Bibliography
- G. M. A. Hanfmann and N. Ramage, R2, pp. 151–52, no. 226, figs. 391–93; Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 44, no. 69; and p. 118, fig. 71 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 290–91, no. 135; SEG 51, 1671). Kroll and Ameling give further bibliographical references.
- Author
- GP