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Painted Inscription on Side Wall of Subterranean Tomb (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Painted Inscription on side wall of subterranean tomb: Inscription for tomb built by Flavius Chrysanthios
- Date
- 3rd–5th century AD., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN77.001
- Material
- Plaster
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Φλ(άβιος) Χρυσάν- θιος κατε- σκεύασεν 4 τὸν ἡρῷον.
- Inscription Translation
- “Flavius Chrysanthios built the tomb.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Nec
- Trench
- Tomb 76.1
- Locus
- Tomb 76.1 Walls
- Findspot
- Tomb 76.1, east wall, near north end.
- Description
Inscription painted within a square wreath on a side wall in the subterranean tomb mentioned in nos. 693 and 694.
- Dimensions
- H. of panel 0.31, W. of panel 0.27–0.28, H. of letters 0.55–0.6.
- Comments
4 τὸν ἡρῷον: instead of τὸ ἡρῷον (ligature NH).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Mentioned by C. H. Greenewalt, jr., BASOR 233 (1979), pp. 4–8, with drawings (cf. also SPRT, fig. 297). Text transcribed from BASOR 233 by H. W. Pleket: SEG 29, 1206 (2).
- Author
- GP