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Altar with bucrania and garlands, Manisa 244. (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Altar with Bucrania and Garlands
Report 2: Sculpture from Sardis: The Finds through 1975
(1978)
Cat. 160
- Date
- 2nd C. AD?, Roman?
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 244
- Museum Inventory No.
- 244
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 244
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Sculpture
- Sculpture Type
- Votive Relief
- Inscription Text
Νο[ήμων Ν]ο̣ήμονος Τρίτος̣ [ὁ σκ]η̣̣πτροφόρος Μητρὶ Σκεπνου ἀνέθηκε.
- Inscription Translation
G.M.A. Hanfmann:
Noemon, also called Tritos, son of Noemon, the bearer of the scepter, has erected (this altar) to the Mother Skepnou.
G. Petzl:
“Noemon Tritos, son of Noemon, the bearer of the scepter, has erected (this altar) to the Meter Skepnou.”
- Inscription Comment
- Text and translation of G. Petzl, M14
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- From Sardis, Nov. 24, 1956.
- Description
The three bucrania of the cylindrical altar are tied to garlands with beaded ribbons vittae). Above the garlands are a moon, crescent, and star.
The dedicatory inscription mentions Noemon, priest of the Mother of the Gods.
The work is reasonably careful, for instance in the pendent vittae. The lettering of the inscription suggests that the piece is of the early Roman Empire, possibly 2nd C. A.D.
- Condition
Marble.
Top broken; some pieces of foot profile missing.
- Dimensions
- P.H. 0.64.
- Comments
- See Also
- See also: M14, No. 451.
- Bibliography
- Author
- NHR