Rooftile of marble from the Temple of Artemis, similar to those published in Sardis VII 1, no. 186: “resembling a miniature gabled roof (they) had two sloping sides, each 0.13 high, 0.85 wide and 0.04 thick…The…inscriptions are each on the outer face of one of the sides”.

For the abbreviation ΦΥ (standing in ligature), meaning φυλή, φυλῆς etc. see no. 600, 4 comm.

My restoration of KAI to a phyle-name Kaisareios is inspired by the φυλὴ Καισάρηος attested in Nysa (A. Boeckh, CIG 2947; Dessau, ILS 8857; L. Robert, Et. épig. philol., p. 49). Boeckh thought that the latter was named after Augustus; this may also be the case for the present phyle, cf. no. 582, with examples for Augustus being referred to as Καῖσαρ. Yet, considering the fact that the Sardians were (at least for a certain time) allowed to call themselves officially Καισαρεῖς Σαρδιανοί (see Sardis VII 1, nos. 38 and 39, and P. Herrmann in AMS 17 [1995], p. 30 [= Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 157–58] with nn. 23–24, both also referring to a coin), probably in reference to Tiberius’s support after the earthquake of 17 AD, I am inclined to connect the creation of the φυ(λὴ) Και(σάρειος) with that very event. Or was the important reward granted to Sardis by the Dictator Caesar in 44 BC (see no. 305) the occasion of the creation of the phyle Kaisareios?