The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

Inscribed Plaque Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Inscribed Plaque Fragment

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 771

Date

Imperial period., Roman

Sardis or Museum Inv. No.

IN05.001a

Material

Marble, Stone

Object Type

Inscription

Inscription Type

Fragment

Inscription language

Greek

Inscription Text

		-     -     -
		] . ΝΗΣΚ[
		]ΑΝΑΒΙΩ[
		   ]vΝΟΝΟΥ[
	4	]ΤΙ ἐξ ΕΥ[
		       ] . . . [

Inscription Translation

Inscription Comment

Site

Sardis

Sector

F55

Trench

F55 05.3

Locus

F55 05.3 Locus 4

B-Grid Coordinates

E773.6 / S183 *130.29

Description

Fragment of a plaque of reddish marble; the front and rear faces are smooth, broken on the other sides. Letters with apices; squared lunate sigma.

Dimensions

H. 0.10, W. 0.07, Th. 0.03, H. of letters 0.012.

Comments

See the introductory note to no. 770.

1 A lower apex of the letter preceding N is visible.

2 A form of ἀναβιόω (“reanimate”)?

3 Before NONOY, a free space of about the width of one letter is preserved. - On the personal name Νονος (and the possibility of toponymic use of its genitive), see G. Petzl, EpAnat 28 (1997), p. 75; cf. TAM V 3, 1862.

4 ἐξ εὐ[χῆς]: corresponding to the Latin ex voto? Cf. Anthologia Palatina VI 357, 6 (Theaet. Cyren.) ἐκ δ᾿ εὐχῆς τοκέων ἕσταμες ἀμφότεροι.

5 The remains of three vertical strokes are present.

See Also

Bibliography

Unpublished.

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