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Inscribed Block (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block (reused as column base)
- Date
- Roman Imperial period?, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.a01
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Varia
- Inscription language
- Latin
- Inscription Text
]OROVAT[ ]SL·BCAE NOẠ[ ]IENO Sardianoru[m 4 ] platia VO[ . . ] . PRO[ vacat
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] of the Sardians [- - -] the place / street [- - -]”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- BS
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- BS Locus BS-E 19 (Area of)
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E114 / S3 top at *97.3
- Findspot
- Byzantine Shop E19.
- Description
Block of white marble with gray veins, reused in Roman times as a column base. On the upper face of the base (i.e., the original inscribed face) there is a dowel hole. The letters are faint in ll. 1–2 and partly so in ll. 3–4.
- Dimensions
- Diam. 0.76, preserved Th. of the original block [i.e., H. of the base] 0.32, H. of letters 0.03–0.04, interlinear space 0.06–0.07; dowel hole: Diam. ca. 0.12.
- Comments
1 ORO: Perhaps OBO.
2 Perhaps CAEṢN.
4 platia is probably equivalent to the Greek πλατεῖα, see no. 339, 6–7 comm.; platea in Dessau, ILS 5350–5353; see L. Robert, Et. anat., p. 532 n. 4. The note of Hanfmann and Waldbaum, p. 31: “A platia Sardianorum is mentioned in a late Latin inscription,” has to be modified.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Mentioned, i.a., by G. M. A. Hanfmann and J. C. Waldbaum, R1, p. 175 n. 120; text unpublished.
- Author
- GP