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Inscribed Block Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block Fragments: Funerary inscription with penalty stipulations
- Date
- Unknown., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN61.053
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - ] ὃς δ᾿ ἂν ὑπεναν̣[τίο]ν̣ τ̣ι̣ τ̣οῖς γε̣[γραμμένοις ποιῇ - - - - π]εντακισχείλια καὶ ἐκ̣τὸς ἐξώλης αὐτὸ[ς - - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] Whoever [does] something opposed to the written stipulations [will have to pay as fine] 5,000 [denarii], and apart from this, may utter perdition [befall] him [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W245 / S390 *89.85
- Findspot
- Pactolus North, reused as cover slabs of Graves 61.33 (a) and 62.37 (b).
- Description
Two joining portions of a block of gray marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.18, W. 1.15, Th. 0.85–1.04, H. of letters 0.02.
- Comments
Herrmann’s restorations.
2 ἐξώλης: for parallels, Herrmann refers to J. Strubbe, AΡΑΙ, pp. 294–95; see also Sardis VII 1, no. 152.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP