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Inscribed Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragments (inside circular medallion, from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 1): Blessing Inscription?
- Date
- 4th–6th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.043
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
(a) [ - - - ]ΩΝΤ̣[ - - - ] [ - - ]Ο τοῦ Θ[εοῦ?] [ - - ]ων καὶ Τ̣[ - - - ] 4 [ - - ]ΟΥΒΟ̣[ - - ]Ν [ - - - ]ΙΡΩ[ . . ] κ̣αὶ [ - - τ]ὸ ἔργον τ[οῦτ]ο [ - - - ] εὐλογία Τ̣[ . . ] . Ι̣ 8 Κύρι[ε βο]ήθι τῷ οἴκῳ τού[τ]ῳ. (b) - - ]Ο̣C̣[ - - - - ]Δ̣ΩΡ̣[ - - 3 - - ]Λ[ - -
- Inscription Translation
- (a) “[- - -] of God(?) [- - -] and [- - -] this work [- - -] blessing [- - -] Lord, help this house.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E42 / N3 - N5 *96.69
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 1.
- Description
(a) “Five joining fragments of an inscription inside a circular medallion on a large square or rectangular slab” of marble (Kroll); (b) “a non-joining fragment”. “On the back side…there is a hole for an iron pin for fastening the slab to a wall” (Kroll).
- Dimensions
- (a) H. 0.53, max. W. 0.71, Th. 0.07, H. of letters 0.025, inside Diam. ca. 0.39; (b) H. 0.06, W. 0.07, Th. 0.03.
- Comments
2 Kroll’s supplement.
4 [Κυρί]ου βο̣[ηθοῦ?] Kroll; refused by Ameling.
7 εὐλογία π[ᾶσιν]?, Ameling, who refers for that “salut purement juif” to L. Robert, Hellenica XI–XII, p. 394.
8–9 “Il s’agit ici, à notre avis, de l’édifice tout entier, comme dans les inscriptions chrétiennes avec la même formule” (J. and L. Robert); see no. 556 (a).
9 After τού[τ]ῳ follows the depiction of “Menorah in circle, flanked by lulab and ethrog” (Kroll).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- G. M. A. Hanfmann, BASOR 187 (1967), p. 18 n. 23a (ll. 8–9; cf. J. and L. Robert, BE 1968, 478); Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 46–47, no. 76; and p. 125, fig. 78 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II 294–95, no. 142; SEG 51, 1676). Kroll and Ameling give further bibliographical references.
- Author
- GP