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Wall Plaster with Painted Inscription (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Wall Plaster with Painted Inscription, In Situ (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Wall Plaster with Painted Inscription
- Date
- Later Roman Imperial period., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- WP64.001
- Material
- Plaster
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Εὐλογητ̣ὸ̣[ς - - - ].
- Inscription Translation
- “[The - - - ] be / is blessed!”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- Trench
- BE 64
- Locus
- B BE-A
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E13.9 / N5.5 *99
- Findspot
- Bath-Gymnasium Complex, BE-A, west face of east wall.
- Description
“Fragment of wall plaster with painted inscription; under the inscription a zigzag border” (SEG).
- Dimensions
- W. 0.62, H. of letters 0.06.
- Comments
“eulogeito[s ho laos]” Yegül; Εὐλογητ̣ὸ̣̣[ς ὁ λαός] SEG. Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 15 n. 32 restores: “Εὐλογητ̣ὸ̣[ς ὁ Θεός?], ‘Blessed [is God?]’ …In all probability the inscription is Christian.”
For εὐλογία, εὐλογεῖν in a Jewish context, see no. 563, a 7 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Mentioned by Yegül, R3, p. 94, fig. 280 (SEG 36, 1104); for J. H. Kroll’s note see below.
- Author
- GP