M14 Cat. 413

Sculpture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

“3rd century A.D.?” (Hanfmann and Ramage, R2). (Roman)

The name Nympheros is attested for gladiators; see L. Robert, Gladiateurs, nos. 191a, 300, 302, and p. 301; also SEG 38, 589. Stele fragment of white marble. The relief shows a heavily armed gladiator with helmet and shield striding toward the right;...

M14 Cat. 414

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

17–37 AD. (Roman)

Four joining fragments of white marble (a–d), plus a fifth (e) and a sixth (f) whose positions in the inscription are uncertain. The fragments (a–e) are broken on all sides and belonged to a building of considerable size. The bilingual Greek and Lati...

M14 Cat. 415

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

1st century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

Architrave of local bluish-white marble; broken on the left. There are moldings above and clamp traces at the top, and anathyrosis on the right face shows that another block followed. The very carefully incised inscription is on the fascia.

M14 Cat. 416

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

1st–2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

Upper left corner of a plaque of white marble; broken on the right and lower sides. The inscribed surface is damaged, and the rear surface is rough.

M14 Cat. 417

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Roman Imperial period. (Roman)

Cornice of a relatively complete aedicula, probably from the stage building of the Roman Theater; broken in two fragments.

M14 Cat. 418

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

“Fine del II o agli inizi del III secolo” (Moretti, ed. pr. 301 [= p. 316], n. 1). (Roman)

Piece of an architrave; broken on all sides.

M14 Cat. 419

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

211–212 AD. (Roman)

First story architrave of marble from the Marble Court; broken into twenty-five fragments. The text runs through on the architrave in two lines. The division signs (|) indicate individual fragments and correspond to the lines in SEG.

M14 Cat. 420

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Antonine or Severan period (138–235 AD). (Roman)

Marble voussoir from a vault, perhaps the central stone of an arch if Θεοῖς occupied the center. The inscription is given in curbed lines on the three fasciae. It is not possible to reconstruct with certainty the original length of ll. 2–3.

M14 Cat. 421

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Julio-Claudian or early Flavian period. (Roman)

Two-fascia architrave block with inscription applied in bronze letters, now missing; partly trimmed on the top, and broken on the right.

M14 Cat. 422

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

398 AD. (Roman)

Reused block.

M14 Cat. 423

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

400 AD (SEG 41). (Roman)

“Two joining blocks of an engaged wall architrave of the first story; traces of red paint in many letters” (SEG 36).

M14 Cat. 424

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

Ca. 5th–6th century AD. (Roman)

Partly damaged mosaic inscription in a tabula ansata.

M14 Cat. 425

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Ca. 5th–6th century AD. (Roman)

Block with a vertical break near the midpoint; cut off above; the left side seems to be original, while the back is heavily picked but smoothed from being walked upon.

M14 Cat. 426

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

“Postérieure à 400 en raison des monnaies trouvées sous la mosaique” (D. Feissel, BE 2009, 616); Evans offers a terminus post quem of ca. 425 AD (Evans, M13, pp. 77–78, Deposit 1). (Roman)

Mosaic inscription from Lower Mosaic of south colonnade of Roman Colonnaded Avenue. “Mosaic with geometrical motifs…; inscription in the center within a rectangular panel with double frame” (SEG 41).

M14 Cat. 427

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

4th–6th century AD. (Roman)

(a) Architectural piece of white marble with a molding on the far right side; the rear is broken away. (b) Architectural piece of white marble; on the left front are the remains of a curved cornice, while the inscribed surface is smoothed; the sides,...

M14 Cat. 428

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

4th–6th century AD (Hanfmann and Ramage). (Roman)

Base of marble for a fountain; the upper left and right corners are broken away. Lettering sloppy.

M14 Cat. 429

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Ca. 570 AD (Merkelbach and Stauber). (Roman)

“Various pieces of an inscription carved on the podium of the Marble Court” (SEG 36). The verses 1–8 are written in one line (a); the prose part in two lines (b). Lunate epsilon and sigma.

M14 Cat. 430

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

6th century AD (letter shape). (Roman)

Fragment of a closure slab of marble that was decorated with a cross. The inscription is on the upper part of the molding.

M14 Cat. 431

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

After 590/91 AD (Evans, M13, pp. 83–85). (Roman)

Mosaic inscription from Upper Mosaic of south colonnade of Roman colonnaded avenue.

M14 Cat. 432

Stele, Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd–1st century BC? (Hellenistic)

Partly broken and damaged stele of local stone.

M14 Cat. 433

Inscription

Stone

Late antiquity? (Roman)

Rupestral boundary inscription on the face of a cliff.

M14 Cat. 434

Statue Base, Inscription

Marble, Stone

The year indicated in l. 1 corresponds to 368/67 or 365 BC (Artaxerxes II); P. Briant (see below) does not exclude the mention of Artaxerxes I in ll. 1–2, whose thirty-ninth year would correspond to 427/26 BC. Rigsby (p. 10) dates the prohibitions ll. 5–13 “from perhaps as early 100 BC…through the first century AD…They may well be contemporary with each other and with the inscription itself in the second century AD.” The actual inscription is a copy which can approximately be dated to the mid-second century AD. (Roman)

Block of marble. It has anathyrosis and a hole on the rear front.

M14 Cat. 435

Altar, Inscription

Marble, Stone

1st century BC? (a somewhat earlier or later date is not excluded). (Hellenistic or Roman)

Cylindrical altar of marble. There are moldings on the upper and lower ends and a hole on the upper surface. Below the inscription, an eagle is holding a thunderbolt; behind the eagle are bucrania, a garland, and three paterae. L. 1 is on the lower b...

M14 Cat. 436

Altar, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Probably under the reign of Eumenes II, after 188 BC (ed. pr., who compares the letter shape with that of Sardis VII 1, no. 88). (Hellenistic)

Block of white marble; the original height is preserved; broken on the right and left sides. On the upper side there is a hole; the rear is roughly chiseled.

M14 Cat. 437

Altar, Inscription

Marble, Stone

In the area north of the Gygaean Lake the Sullan era (year 230 = 145/46 AD) was used as well as the Actian (year 230 = 199/200 AD); see Leschhorn, Ären, pp. 505–6. (Roman)

Quadrangular altar with moldings at the top and bottom.