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

Inscribed Fragment

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 782
Date
2nd–3rd century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
NoEx62.015
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Inscription
Inscription Type
Fragment
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		-     -     -  
		] . ΟΡ
		]ΖΩΣΙ
		]ΥΗΣ
	4	]ΡΙΟΥ vac.
		vacat
Inscription Translation
Inscription Comment
Findspot
Unknown provenance.
Description

Fragment of marble with only a part of the right edge preserved; broken on the other sides. Lunate sigma; ω-shaped omega.

Dimensions
H. 0.18, W. 0.18, Th. 0.075, H. of letters 0.02–0.03.
Comments

2 ΖΩΣΙ: Perhaps ζῶσι (“they are living”), belonging to a funerary inscription (cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 157 and no. 653, 1), or a name beginning with Ζωσι[μ- ].

See Also
Bibliography
Unpublished.
Author
GP

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