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Inscribed Plaque Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Plaque Fragment: Funerary Inscription for Eugnomonios
- Date
- Late Antiquity, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN61.002
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Εὐν- ομο- νείο- 4 υ ΣΑΝ- ΔΩΝ̣ - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “(Tomb) of Eu(g)nomonios - - -.”
- Inscription Comment
- Sector
- PC
- Findspot
- Found in a vineyard ca. 450 m south of the street leading to the Temple of Artemis, south of the Pactolus Cliff.
- Description
Plaque of marble; upper(?) and lower sides are broken off.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.24, W. 0.14, Th. 0.05, H. of letters 0.03–0.04.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text.
1–4 Εὐνομονείου: presumably instead of Εὐγνωμονίου (Herrmann recognized in Eunomonios “eine Weiterbildung zu Εὔνομος”).
4–5 Herrmann understood ΣΑΝΔΩΝ̣ (according to him the last letter could also be a Λ or Δ) either as belonging to a personal name or (perhaps preferably) to a term for a profession concerning an old Lydian tradition: the production of “flesh-colored women’s garments” by means of red sandalwood (Joh. Lydus, de magistratibus 3, 64; see LSJ s.v. σάνδυξ and σανδών). For the family of theophoric names, to which Σανδων belongs, see L. Robert, Noms indig. p. 500, n. 4.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP