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Inscribed Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragment: Funerary Inscription for a foster-father
- Date
- Unknown., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN95.010
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - ? - - Ἀγα[ - - τὸν] θρέψαν̣[τα ἑαυ]- τοῦ εἰκοσ̣ι̣[- -] 4 πληρώσαντα ἔτη μνείας χάριν.
- Inscription Translation
- “Aga[- - - honored] his foster-father, who lived (“filled”) [- - and] twenty years, for the sake of memory.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS/S
- Trench
- MMS/S 95.3
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E101.15 / S121 *109.9
- Description
Fragment of white marble; the upper and right sides are broken off. The left edge is circular, the lower one straight, and the left side (with a roll on the rear) is thicker than the right. On the left side are traces of mortar. The fragment, perhaps medallion-shaped, must have belonged to a funerary monument where further parts of the text were written.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.31, W. 0.32, Th. right 0.017, left 0.035, with roll 0.10, H. of letters 0.02–0.025.
- Comments
4 πληρόω, in the same sense as it is used here, also appears in Philadelpheia; see TAM V 3, 1910 (= R. Merkelbach and J. Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten 1 [1998], p. 481, no. 04/24/07), l. 5.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP