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Inscribed Block Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block Fragment: Funerary inscription
- Date
- 1st century AD (excavation record)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx65.008
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ - - Ἀπ]ολλωνίου leaf ΒΑ[
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] of Apollonios, BA[- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Field on northwestern “slope of flat top rise between highway and akropolis, under city wall” (excavation record).
- Description
Block of marble with top surface cut back diagonally; broken on right and lower left, with the rear face roughly worked. There is anathyrosis on the left and undersides. It was probably part of a tomb construction.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.32, W. 0.53, Th. 0.18, H. of letters 0.04–0.045.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP