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Inscribed Theater Seat (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Theater Seat (for tribe named after an Attalid King Eumenes?)
- Date
- Unknown., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN06.002
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Varia
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
ΕΥ
- Inscription Translation
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- ThSt
- Trench
- ThSt 06.1
- Locus
- ThSt 06.1 Locus 3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E974.3 - E974.45 / S274.65 - S273.9 *136.803 - 136.638
- Findspot
- Theater.
- Description
Theater seat. The inscription is carefully carved on the top right.
- Dimensions
- W. 0.13.
- Comments
In the theater of Phrygian Hierapolis there were seats reserved for a phyle named after an Attalid king Eumenes (Eumenes I rather than Eumenes II, see F. Kolb, ZPE 15 [1974], p. 258; and J. and L. Robert, BE 1976, 668; Eumenes II, see H. J. Schalles, IstForsch 36 [1985], p. 112 n. 673), as an inscription of the second–third century AD shows (my restoration): φυλῆς Εὐμεν[ηΐ]δος (“tribù Eumeneís,” T. Ritti, Storia e istituzioni di Hierapolis [2017], p. 59, fig. 9; and pp. 287–88; Εὐμεν[ί]δος, ead., Fonti letterarie ed epigrafiche, Hierapolis, Scavi e ricerche I (1985), p. 119, pl. 18d [SEG 35, 1369]; φυλῆς Εὐ̣μεν[ίδος], Kolb).
I think that the present inscription may have signaled that a row of seats were reserved for the members (φυλῆς) Εὐ(μενηΐδος); for that Sardian tribe, which must have been named after Eumenes II, cf. no. 436; for the Eumeneia celebrated in honor of that king, see no. 306, 10–11 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP