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Inscribed Plaque, Fragment 1 (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Plaque, Fragment 2 (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Plaque Fragments
- Date
- 1st–2nd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S14.065
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Fragment
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
(a) - - - Τ̣ΑΔ[ - - - (b) - - - ΑΝΔ[ - - -
- Inscription Translation
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 14.2
- Locus
- F55 14.2 Locus 28
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E762 - E764.61 / S171 - S172.65 *131.268
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace, F55 13.1 Lot 13 occupation layer with Lot 6 water channel, over marble collapse from the late antique Spolia Wall, Locus 3.
- Description
Two non-joining fragments of a plaque of white marble; (“A” in [b]). (a) has a portion of the left edge preserved, elsewhere broken; (b) has portions of the left and lower edges preserved, elsewhere broken. The plaque had a rectangular (probably inscribed) field surrounded by a molding. Parts of an inscription are preserved in (a), consisting of one line above the upper left corner of the molding and in (b), consisting of the only line below the lower left corner of the molding; under the inscription the stone is roughly worked.
- Dimensions
- Th. 0.03, H. of letters 0.022–0.028; (a) max. H. 0.075, W. 0.10; (b) max. H. 0.225, W. 0.098.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP