M14 Cat. 563

Inscription

Marble, Stone

4th–6th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating. (Roman)

(a) “Five joining fragments of an inscription inside a circular medallion on a large square or rectangular slab” of marble (Kroll); (b) “a non-joining fragment”. “On the back side…there is a hole for an iron pin for fastening the slab to a wall” (Kro...

M14 Cat. 564

Inscription

Marble, Stone

4th–6th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating. (Roman)

Four joining fragments of a medallion of marble, like no. 563. “The original right edge of the slab is preserved, as is part of a raised horizontal molding underneath the medallion” (Kroll).

M14 Cat. 565

Inscription, Graffito

Marble, Stone

4th–6th century AD (Ameling); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating. (Roman)

“Graffito on the marble pavement…a circle, divided into eight segments with a letter in each segment” (Kroll).

M14 Cat. 566

Inscription

Marble, Stone

5th–6th century AD? (Roman)

Fragment of a tabula ansata of white coarse marble; broken on all sides, while portions of the upper, left, and lower edges of the tabula are preserved, and the rear face is smooth. Bilingual Greek and Hebrew inscription.

M14 Cat. 567

Statue Base, Inscription

Marble, Stone

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

Base of marble; three registers separated by two beveled channels. The inscription runs on two sides in the middle register; one side is plain.

M14 Cat. 568

Inscription

Marble, Stone

(Roman)

White polished marble plaque.

M14 Cat. 568a

Inscription

Plaster

Later Roman Imperial period. (Roman)

“Fragment of wall plaster with painted inscription; under the inscription a zigzag border” (SEG).

M14 Cat. 569

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Probably Hellenistic. (Hellenistic)

Marble, at the time of the original publication, serving as threshold in a house. - “ἐν χωρίῳ Τατάρ”, cf. 683, lemma.

M14 Cat. 570

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

3rd century AD? (Roman)

Wedge-shaped block of white marble; damaged at the lower and partly at the front parts. Except for the rear face, which is rough and has a rectangular dowel hole, the faces are smoothed. Near the upper face a wreath surrounds the worn inscription.

M14 Cat. 571

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Roman Imperial period? (Roman)

Block of white marble with gray veins, reused in Roman times as a column base. On the upper face of the base (i.e., the original inscribed face) there is a dowel hole. The letters are faint in ll. 1–2 and partly so in ll. 3–4.

M14 Cat. 572

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Early to mid-1st century AD? (ed. pr.); or later? (Roman)

“Pediment block with raking cornice found in association with fragments of an early imperial temple tentatively identified as a sanctuary of the imperial cult” (SEG). The letters “are finished with the same preliminary tooling as the rest of the surf...

M14 Cat. 573

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Hellenistic? (ed. pr.); rather early Roman Imperial period (Weiß). (Hellenistic or Roman)

Column drum of marble. The inscription is near the top of the drum, below which is a relief showing the child Dionysos reclining on Mt. Tmolos; he is lying on a nebris, his left hand rests upon the thyrsos, the raised right hand (now lost) held perha...

M14 Cat. 574

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

1st century AD, after 17 AD? (Roman)

Rooftile of marble from the Temple of Artemis, similar to those published in Sardis VII 1, no. 186: “resembling a miniature gabled roof (they) had two sloping sides, each 0.13 high, 0.85 wide and 0.04 thick…The…inscriptions are each on the outer face...

M14 Cat. 575

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Unknown. (Roman)

Theater seat. The inscription is carefully carved on the top right.

M14 Cat. 576

Architecture, Inscription

Stone

Advanced Roman Imperial period? (letter shape). (Roman)

“Unofficial” inscriptions scratched into floor slabs of the Marble Court.

M14 Cat. 577

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

Fragment of grayish-white marble; broken on all sides. Shaky, careless script.

M14 Cat. 578

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

Fragment of white marble; broken on all sides.

M14 Cat. 579

Architecture, Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd–3rd century AD? (letter shape) (Roman)

Upper left corner of a plaque of white marble; right and lower portions broken off, while the rear face is roughly chiseled.

M14 Cat. 580

Inscription

Lead

Ca. 6th century AD. (Roman)

Circular seal of lead inscribed on both sides.

M14 Cat. 581

Cinerarium Lid, Inscription

Marble, Stone

138–133 BC. (Hellenistic)

Fragment, probably of a convex cinerarium lid of white marble; only a part of the left edge, with a notch, is preserved.

M14 Cat. 582

Inscription

Ceramic

In Augustus’s reign? (Roman)

Cinerary urn of clay with painted inscription.

M14 Cat. 583

Inscription

Marble, Stone

Probably second half of the 1st century BC or early Roman Imperial period (Herrmann, thus modifying SPRT, p. 253 n. 64: “Hellenistic”). (Hellenistic or Roman)

Roof-shaped lid of a cinerary chest of marble.

M14 Cat. 584

Cinerarium Lid, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Probably second half of the 1st century BC or early Imperial period (Herrmann). (Hellenistic or Roman)

Cinerarium lid of fine white marble. Lunate sigma.

M14 Cat. 585

Cinerarium Lid, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Probably second half of the 1st century BC or early Imperial period (Herrmann). (Hellenistic or Roman)

Cinerarium lid of gray marble. The letters stand between guidelines.

M14 Cat. 586

Cinerarium Lid, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Probably second half of the 1st century BC or early Imperial period (Herrmann). (Hellenistic or Roman)

Cinerarium lid of gray marble, broken on the lower right side.