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Inscribed Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragment
- Date
- 3rd–4th century AD? (letter shape)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx71.026a
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Fragment
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
- - - ] . . [ ]ΑΧΡΑ[ ] . . ΝΘΗ . [ 4 ] . [ - - -
- Inscription Translation
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
Fragment of marble; broken on all sides.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.17, W. 0.16, Th. 0.05, H. of letters ca. 0.03.
- Comments
2 The epigram from Gortyn, ZPE 183 (2012), pp. 59–66 (SEG 62, 636), begins Ἀντίον ἀχράντοιο Δίκης τὸν ἄχραντον ὕπαρχον / δῖος Ἀριστείδης ἵδρυσεν Ἀφθόνιον. The editor, G. Vallarino, deals (pp. 62–63) with the meaning of the adjective ἄχραντος (“incorruptible,” D. Feissel, BE 2013, 513). IGSK 24, 1 (Smyrna), no. 757 (R. Merkelbach and J. Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten 1 [1998], p. 503, no. 05/01/05) mentions an “immaculate statue of Zeus Soter,” Διὸς Σωτῆρος ἄγαλμα…ἄχραντον.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP