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Inscribed Stele (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele: Funerary Inscription for Euethios
- Date
- 4th–5th century AD? (L. Robert apud Crawford)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN59.003
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Μνήμη Ε̣ὐη- ⟦VΑΡ̣ Ε̣ὐη⟧θίου σὺν τῇ ἐπικε̣ιμένῃ 4 σορῷ καὶ περιβό- λου.
- Inscription Translation
- “Tomb of Euethios, together with the sarcophagus put on top and (the) enclosure.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- BS
- Trench
- BS 59
- Locus
- BS Locus BS-W 8 (Area of)
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W24.25 - W25.25 / S1 *97.75 - 97.00
- Findspot
- Byzantine Shop W8, reused as a water basin.
- Description
Stele of white marble. The upper part is cut off; there, the lower halves of two wreaths, each in a square recess, are visible; below them, an earlier inscription has been deleted. The present inscription was written on the stele’s lower half. A Latin cross on an orb had later been carved over the surface (another such cross was carved on the surface of the stele no. 319, which stands to the right of the present one).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.82, W. 0.55, Th. 0.10, H. of letters 0.05–0.07.
- Comments
1 For μνήμη as equivalent to μνημεῖον, see IGUR II, 1, no. 306, 4 (fourth century AD) and IGUR III, no. 1154, 4 (second–third century AD?). - For the name Εὐήθιος in Lydia see, LGPN VA, s.v.
1–2 It seems that ΘΙΟΥ in l. 2, on the right side of the cross, is the continuation of Ε̣ΥΗ (l. 1). The preceding letters are partly superficially deleted.
4–5 περιβόλου instead of περιβόλῳ. For the territory, often encircled by a wall, belonging to a funeral monument see no. 652, 2; no. 675, 4; Kubińska, Monuments funéraires, pp. 135–37.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- The text is unpublished; the stone and its setting are mentioned by J. S. Crawford, M9, pp. 26, 29, fig. 68. [Plate 9].
- Author
- GP