The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

Inscribed Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Inscribed Fragment (from fills over marble collapse from late antique Spolia Wall): Part of a “Lydian Chronicle”

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 578

Date

2nd–3rd century AD?, Roman

Sardis or Museum Inv. No.

S13.070

Material

Marble, Stone

Object Type

Architecture, Inscription

Inscription Type

Varia

Inscription language

Greek

Inscription Text

		-     -     -     -
		] . ΑΣ̣ . [
		  ]ΦΗΣΠ̣[
		  ]ΗΝΑΙΛΕΙ̣[
	4	ἀ]δελφὸς Ν̣[
		   ]ΟΒΗΘΕΠ̣[
		   ] . ΤΗΝΙ̣[
		             ] . [
		-     -     -     -

Inscription Translation

“[- - -] brother [- - -]”

Inscription Comment

Site

Sardis

Sector

F55

Trench

F55 13.1

Locus

F55 13.1 Locus 12

B-Grid Coordinates

E778.35 / S182.15 *128.958

Findspot

Field 55, east side of the Wadi B Temple terrace, fills over marble collapse from the late antique Spolia Wall.

Description

Fragment of white marble; broken on all sides.

Dimensions

H. ca. 0.15, W. ca. 0.10, Th. ca. 0.05, average H. of letters 0.01.

Comments

The thickness of the stone, letter height, interlinear space, and the general shape of the letters (in particular the squared lunate sigma) could suggest that no. 577 and no. 578 belonged to the same document. Yet, it is noteworthy that the script of no. 578 is more carefully (with apices) and more deeply engraved than in no. 577. If, therefore, both fragments belonged to the same document, their position must have been rather distant from each other. The marble of no. 578 seems to be whiter than that of no. 577.

5 There seems to be no obvious restoration; [φ]οβῆθ᾿ ἑπ̣[ - ], [φ]όβη ΘΕΠ̣[ - ], [Νι]όβη θ᾿ ἑπ[- ] have little probability.

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