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Inscribed Architrave (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Architrave: Funerary? Inscription Commemorating Victory in the Hoplitodromos at the 'Halieia'
- Date
- 2nd or 1st century BC., Hellenistic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx88.003
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἁλίεια ὁπλί- την
- Inscription Translation
- “(Victory) in the race of men in armor at the ‘Halieia’ (contest sacred to the Sun-God Helios).”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Üçtepeler
- Findspot
- Found in the valley north of Üçtepeler, near the tallest aqueduct pier.
- Description
Architrave of marble. On the right and left sides further blocks were fixed (there are clamp holes on the upper side). The rear is slightly worked. The upper edge shows molding. There is a triglyph on the right side; on the left, there is a relief of an oak wreath. L. 1 is above and ll. 2–3 are in the wreath.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.43, W. 0.74, Th. 0.34, H. of letters 0.018–0.02.
- Comments
Herrmann assumes that the athlete, to whose funerary monument the architrave belonged (its sepulchral character is not certain), had been victorious in the race of men in armor at the famous Rhodian “Halieia” (not in another ἀγών of that name, such as the “Haleia” of Lydian Philadelpheia, see TAM V 3, 1483, 13–14). He refers to another mention of a victory in that discipline at the Rhodian “Halieia”; I.Didyma, no. 201, 11 (see also Milet VI 1, p. 215, no. 369 comm.). This entry will have belonged to a list of victories inscribed on the building.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished (mentioned by C. Brixhe and A. Panayotou in BE 1991, 510); Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP