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Inscribed Stele (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele: Funerary Inscription for Philippides
- Date
- Late Antiquity., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx79.001
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Μνῆμα διαφέρο(ν) Φιλιπίδο[υ] 4 νοταρί- [ου].
- Inscription Translation
- “Tomb belonging to the notarius Philip(p)ides.”
- Inscription Comment
- Findspot
- Allegedly from a field near Şeytan Deresi, ca. 10–15 m north of the “Lydian” water tunnel.
- Description
- Fragment of a stele, top and bottom broken off (H. 0.28, W. 0.29, Th. 0.08, H. of letters ca. 0.055).
- Comments
3 Φιλιπίδο[υ]: my reading; Φιλίππου Herrmann. The second iota has the shape of a cross (originally iota with trema?).
4 A notarius (νοταρί/[ου] suppl. Herrmann) is a shorthand writer or a clerk. “Le mot est extrèmement fréquent à l’époque byzantine” (L. Robert, RPhil 1934, pp. 275–76 = Op. Min. II, pp. 1174–75); cf. H. C. Teitler, Notarii and Exceptores (1985) and W. Ameling, ZPE 198 (2016), pp. 68–71.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP