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Inscribed Column Drum, Detail (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Column Drum (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Column Drum: Inscription Naming the tribe Tmolis, above relief of Dionysos reclining on Mt. Tmolus
- Date
- Hellenistic? (ed. pr.); rather early Roman Imperial period (Weiß)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN60.019
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Varia
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Φυλῆς Τμωλίδος.
- Inscription Translation
- “Of the phyle Tmolis.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- Findspot
- Pactolus North, built into a wall between Rooms A and B of the late Roman villa. Expedition compound.
- Description
Column drum of marble. The inscription is near the top of the drum, below which is a relief showing the child Dionysos reclining on Mt. Tmolos; he is lying on a nebris, his left hand rests upon the thyrsos, the raised right hand (now lost) held perhaps a grape (Weiß, correcting the interpretation of ed. pr.).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.88, Diam. 0.62, H. of letters 0.03.
- Comments
For the phyle Tmolis, see no. 612, 4 comm.
Weiß deals with the correct interpretation of the relief in connection with the literary, numismatic, epigraphical, and monumental tradition that located Dionysos’s childhood on Mt. Tmolos; see also C. Foss, ClAnt 1 (1982), p. 184 n. 19. “Die Phyle Tmolis führte das Dionysoskind auf dem Tmolos gewissermaßen im Wappen, und jeder wußte, warum” (Weiß, p. 103).
- See Also
- See also: R2, No. 211.
- Bibliography
- G. M. A. Hanfmann and N. Ramage, R2, p. 146, no. 211, fig. 371. Edition from a photograph: P. Weiß, “Götter, Städte und Gelehrte, Lydiaka und ‘Patria’ um Sardes und den Tmolos” (in Forschungen in Lydien, ed. E. Schwertheim [1995 = AMS 17], pp. 85–109), pp. 103–4, fig. 14 (SEG 45, 1650). [Plate 8]
- Author
- GP