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Inscribed Stele (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele: Funerary Inscription for Dromon, son of Ephesos, a Mysian
- Date
- Late 4th–early 3rd century BC., Hellenistic
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, inv. no. 6635
- Museum Inventory No.
- inv. no. 6635
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx84.003
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Δρόμων Ἐφέσου Μυσός.
- Inscription Translation
- “Dromon, son of Ephesos, Mysian.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PC
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca. W200 / S700
- Findspot
- South of Pactolus Cliff, on the eastern banks of the Pactolus River.
- Description
Pedimental stele of bluish gray marble; broken at the lower part, with the sides damaged. Under the Greek inscription was later added a non-related text of at least six lines in Lydian script and language.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.53, W. 0.24, Th. 0.08, H. of letters 0.01–0.028.
- Comments
1 For the name Δρόμων, Herrmann (SEG 35) refers to SEG 32, 314.
2 The personal name Ἔφεσος occurs in Sardis, Sardis VII 1, no. 1, col. I, 17 (text from the fourth century BC), and no. 3, 3 and 5. J. and L. Robert, BE 1977, 481 stress its early occurrence at Sardis and see a relation to the connection between the Sardian and the Ephesian Artemis.
3 On the Mysian influence in northeast Lydia, see the testimonia presented by P. Herrmann in TAM V 1, p. 79; see also J. Nollé, Gephyra 7 (2010), pp. 72–90, with further references. “Man wüßte gern etwas über den sozialen Status dieses ‘Mysers’” (Herrmann). A. Chaniotis suggests that Dromon was a mercenary; see no. 634, 1–3 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- cf. Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 81, no. 213 (without text). R. Gusmani, Kadmos 24 (1985), pp. 77–78, pl. 2 (SEG 35, 1255); cf. BASOR Suppl. 25 (1987), p. 44, fig. 30. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP