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Inscribed Block (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block: Funerary Inscription for Artemeis, daughter of Metrodoros, wife of Attalos, son of Nikandros
- Date
- 1st century BC–1st century AD? (letter shape)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx61.004
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἄρτεμειν Μητροδώρου, γυναῖκα δὲ Ἀττάλου τοῦ Νικάνδρου.
- Inscription Translation
- “Artemeis, daughter of Metrodoros, wife of Attalos, the son of Nikandros.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sart Mustafa
- Findspot
- Found in a house in Sart Mustafa.
- Description
Block of white marble; preserved on all sides except for the upper portion which contained a relief of which the lower part of a recess with two feet is visible. Herrmann thinks that the block stood perhaps in front of a wall or was built into a wall; he does not exclude the possibility that surfaces of the stone were remodelled for second use.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.42, W. 0.80, Th. 0.11–0.12, H. of letters 0.015–0.02.
- Comments
1 O. Masson, ZPE 66 (1986), pp. 126–30 (= OGS 2, pp. 543–47): “un nom de femme Ἄρτεμις, identique à celui de la divinité, a continué à vivre, avec la variante Ἄρτεμεις…, depuis le Ve ou IVe s. avant jusqu’au IVe ou Ve s. après” (p. 130 [p. 547]); cf. SEG 36, 1544; W. Blümel and H. Malay, EpAnat 21 (1993), pp. 135–36, on no. 7, 2, hesitate about Masson’s view; see also TAM V 3, 1764. Cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 3, 7: “Ἀρτεμῖς.”
3 Νικάνδρου stands in a rasura.
- See Also
- See also: R2, No. 155.
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP