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Inscribed Plaque Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Plaque Fragment: Funerary Inscription for Apollonios, son of Apollonios
- Date
- 1st century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN60.046
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ἡ γερουσία̣ [καὶ - - - (?) ἐτείμη]- σαν Ἀπολλώνιον Ἀπολλ[ωνίου νεανισ]- κ̣άρχην ζήσα̣[ντ]α̣ κοσμίως [ ].
- Inscription Translation
- “The Council and the gerousia [and - - - (?) have honored] Apollonios, son of Apoll[onios, the neanis(?)]karches who lived decently [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Found in Sart Mahmut(?).
- Description
Plaque of white marble; broken on the right side; all other sides preserved. A semicircular recess on the left side is due to later use of the stone. A hole in the middle has destroyed two to three letters. On the right are the remains of a rectangular recess.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.58, W. 1.19, Th. 0.13, H. of letters 0.035.
- Comments
Herrmann’s readings and restorations.
Small distinctive signs between ΒΟΥΛΗ and ΚΑΙ (l. 1), and ΣΑΝ and ΑΠΟΛΛ. (l. 2).
1 In no. 381 and Sardis VII 1, no. 30, ἡ γερουσία and ὁ δῆμος are the honoring corporations; in Sardis VII 1, no. 32 the gerousia is the only one. Herrmann refers also to TAM V 3, 1448 (Philadelpheia?, see no. 592 comm.) = Sardis VII 1, no. 41*, where boule, demos, and gerousia are the authors of honors; cf. no. 657, 1–2 comm. Herrmann wonders whether in l. 1 the restoration should be ἡ γερουσία̣ [καὶ ὁ δῆμος ἐτείμη]/σαν. I would not rule out [καὶ οἱ νέοι, etc.].
2–3 Herrmann prefers the restoration [νεανισ]/κ̣άρχην to [δε]/κάρχην (= decurionem); on the function of the νεανισκάρχης, see C. A. Forbes, Neoi (1933), pp. 62–64; L. and J. Robert, La Carie II, p. 42 n. 7; iid., BE 1962, 218; and S. Zoumbaki, “Zur Funktion des Neaniskarchen…,” in M. Garrido-Hory and A. Gonzales (edd.), Histoire, espaces et marges…, vol. 3 (2004), pp. 193–211 (SEG 54, 1911).
3 κοσμίως: see L. Robert, Hellenica XIII, p. 222. - The age of the deceased may have been indicated, [ἔτη…].
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP