The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

Overview of Inscriptions in Floor of Marble Court (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscription A (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscription B (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscription C (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscription D (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

“Unofficial” Inscriptions scratched into floor slabs of Marble Court

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 576

Date

Advanced Roman Imperial period? (letter shape)., Roman

Sardis or Museum Inv. No.

IN71.006a-d

Material

Stone

Object Type

Architecture, Inscription

Inscription Type

Varia

Inscription language

Greek

Inscription Text

	(a) To the left of the inscription is depicted a sun, to the right a twig.

		γερουσίας
		ΣΥΜ̣ΦΟΡΙΟΥ

	(b) Around the inscription is drawn a tabula ansata (three unclear signs in the left ansa).

	 	τόπος
		β̣ουλῆς
		Ρ̣ Ι̣ΥΦ̣Ι̣Ν̣
	4	CΟΛΙC

	(c) Around the inscription is drawn a tabula ansata (a sun in the right ansa?).

	 	βουλῆς
		Ι̣Ι̣Ι̣ΚΡΙ̣ΔΙΣ
		ἔγραφε

	(d) Around the inscription is drawn a tabula ansata.

	 	τόπος
		β̣ουλῆ̣ς

Inscription Translation

(b) “Place of the council - - - .”
(c) “Of the council [- - -] wrote.”
(d) “Place of the council.”

Inscription Comment

Site

Sardis

Sector

Trench

MC 71

Locus

B Marble Court

B-Grid Coordinates

E29 - E30.5 / N56.1 - N56.7

Findspot

Bath-Gymnasium Complex, Marble Court. (a), (b), and (c) are on one block at E29–30.5/N56.10–56.70; (d) on a different block at E25/N56.20. All of the letters are irregular, and in (b)–(d) they are very worn (H. of letters [a] 0.023–0.045, [b] 0.02–0.025, [c] 0.022–0.025, [d] 0.02–0.03). - In situ.

Description

“Unofficial” inscriptions scratched into floor slabs of the Marble Court.

Dimensions

H. of letters [a] 0.023–0.045, [b] 0.02–0.025, [c] 0.022–0.025, [d] 0.02–0.03.

Comments

1–2 γερουσίας Συμφορίου, excavation record.

3–4 My reading from the photo (Ῥουφῖν/ος?); β̣ο̣υφ̣ιν ἔγραψε, excavation record.

2 My reading from the photo; Πικριδις, excavation record.

See Also

Bibliography

Unpublished; photographs of (a)–(c) appear in Yegül, R3, fig. 124. The text of (d) is given from the excavation record, where also information on (a)–(c) is found.

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