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Inscribed Stele Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele Fragment: Funerary Inscription for Noumenios, son of Hermagenes
- Date
- 1st century BC–1st century AD (Herrmann)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.008
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Νουμήνιος Ἑρμαγένο[υ] χαῖρε.
- Inscription Translation
- “Noumenios, son of Hermagenes, farewell!”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W240 / S380 *91.30
- Findspot
- Pactolus North.
- Description
Lower portion of a stele of marble; broken above.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.23, W. 0.31, Th. 0.07, H. of letters 0.009–0.012.
- Comments
1 For the name Νουμήνιος (also no. 596, 1) see O. Masson, ZPE 102 (1994), pp. 167–73 (= OGS 3, p. 172) and ZPE 119 (1997), p. 68 (= OGS 3, p. 275). - Ἑρμαγένο[υ]: Sardis VII 1, no. 111: Μηνοφίλα Ἑρμαγένου.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP