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Inscribed Wedge-Shaped Block (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Wedge-Shaped Block: Wreathed Inscription Hailing the Tyche of Sardis
- Date
- 3rd century AD?, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN65.015
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Varia
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Αὖξε Τύχη Σάρδε- 4 leaf ων leaf
- Inscription Translation
- “Hail, Fortune of Sardis!”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- RT
- Trench
- Syn 65
- Locus
- Monumental Arch (area of)
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E121.5 - E122.6 / S11 - S12 ca. *96.40
- Findspot
- Road Trench, Monumental Arch, among rubble in north foundations; the stone was resting on top of no.
332 , near the findspot of no.425 .
- Description
Wedge-shaped block of white marble; damaged at the lower and partly at the front parts. Except for the rear face, which is rough and has a rectangular dowel hole, the faces are smoothed. Near the upper face a wreath surrounds the worn inscription.
- Dimensions
- H. 1.20, W. of front 1.00 [the rear is wider], max. Th. 0.38; dowel hole: 0.20 from the upper face, 0.12 × 0.12.
- Comments
As the photo shows, all letters should be dotted.
1 For a long series of acclamations with αὖξε cf. IGSK 61 (Perge II), no. 331, col. ii (third century AD).
BASOR 203 (1971), p. 14: “A large architectural piece (part of pier) found in 1965 (IN65.15) had an inscription in a wreath, now deciphered through L. J. Majewski’s copy by L. Robert: Auxei Tyche Sardeon.”
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished; for a mention in BASOR, see above.
- Author
- GP