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    Inscribed Slab (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Inscribed Slab (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 2): “… Lord, help” (Blessing Inscription?)

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 558
Date
End of the 3rd century AD (letter shape; see SEG)., Roman
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
IN63.087
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Inscription
Inscription Type
Religious Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		Μ[
		ΕΠΙ̣[
		ΛΙΝΑ[
	4	ΤΙΠΥ[
		κύ(ριε) β[οήθει].
Inscription Translation
“[- - -] Lord, help” (Kroll).
Inscription Comment
Site
Sardis
Sector
Syn
Trench
Syn 63
Locus
Syn MH Above Floor
B-Grid Coordinates
E52 / N9.50 - N10 *97.25 - 97.00
Findspot
Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 2.
Description

Upper left edge of a slab of marble; broken on all the other edges.

Dimensions
H. 0.40, W. 0.24, Th. 0.10, H. of letters 0.043.
Comments

5 ΚΥ·´Β[ ]

.

Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.

See Also
Bibliography
Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 45, no. 71; and p. 120, fig. 73 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, p. 292, no. 137; SEG 51, 1668).
Author
GP

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