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Inscribed Brick (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Brick: “Gift”
- Date
- 256/57 AD., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, inv. no. 7113
- Museum Inventory No.
- inv. no. 7113
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S89.003
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Fragment
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Δῶρον vac. ΜΓ leaf ΑΤΜΑ[
- Inscription Translation
- “Gift; the third month, first day, (year) 341.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS/N
- Trench
- MMS/N 89.1
- Locus
- MMS/N 89.1 Locus 11
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E146.75 / S35 *100.56
- Findspot
- MMS/N, south colonnade collapse.
- Description
“Rectangular marble brick, inscribed on the front…On top, two guttae frame a recessed sea-shell” (excavation record).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.066, W. 0.17, Th. 0.084.
- Comments
Rautman quotes P. Herrmann’s reading and translation.
1 cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 224, 19–24, stamped on utensils.
2 ΜΓA is, according to Herrmann, equivalent to “the first day of the third month”: μ(ηνὸς) (τρίτου) (πρώτη ἡμέρα). On the numbering of months in Sardis, see no. 585, 2 comm. The third month would correspond to Audnaios. - τμα´ indicates the year “341” of the Sullan era, corresponding to 256/57 AD (Herrmann).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- M. Rautman, AASOR 51 (1993), p. 39 n. 4.
- Author
- GP