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Inscribed Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragment
- Date
- Late Antiquity., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN69.002
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Fragment
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
]ΚΕΛ[ ]Σ γέρων [ ]Θ[ - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] old man [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- BS
- Trench
- BS 69
- Locus
- BS Locus BS-E 7 (Area of)
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E45.27 / S0.09 *99
- Findspot
- Byzantine Shop E7.
- Description
Fragment of fine gray marble; only a part of the upper edge is preserved, broken on all other sides. Squared lunate sigma.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.22, W. 0.25, Th. 0.02, H. of letters 0.044.
- Comments
Near Philadelpheia, on the slopes of Mt. Tmolus, there was a monastery; the letters of the inscription (TAM V 3, 1531; probably dated to the end of tenth century AD), reproducing the monastery’s rule (typikon), are similar to those of the present fragment (see Chiron 32 [2002], p. 180). One of its subjects is the nursing of aged monks (γέροντες).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP