M14 Cat. 474

Inscription

Marble, Stone

“Early first century BC” (Malay). (Hellenistic)

Lower section of a block of marble.

M14 Cat. 475

Stele, Inscription

Marble, Stone

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

Lower left corner of a marble stele; elsewhere broken. In a recess are preserved the remains of a relief: two legs of a table(?) and two human feet. The inscription is under the relief. Irregular letters (lunate three-bar sigma).

M14 Cat. 476

Inscription

Marble, Stone

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

Block of white marble; the right side is broken off. At the back end of the upper face is a rectangular clamp hole.

M14 Cat. 477

Statue Base, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Probably 2nd century AD. (Roman)

Base of white marble, the upper and lower ends with moldings; on the upper surface there are two holes. The script is badly worn.

M14 Cat. 478

Stele, Inscription

Marble, Stone

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

Lower right fragment of a stele of white marble. The remains of a relief show the lower part of a bare left leg and foot, and the toes of the right foot of a standing person. Below, there is a protruding zone (H. 0.075) bearing the inscription.

M14 Cat. 479

Stele, Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

Fragment of the right part of a stele(?) of white marble; broken on all other sides.

M14 Cat. 480

Stele, Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

Fragment of the right part of a stele of white marble, broken on all other sides. The script is placed between guidelines.

M14 Cat. 481

Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

Fragment, probably the right part of a stele of white marble; the right edge is preserved, broken on all other sides.

M14 Cat. 482

Stele, Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd–3rd century AD? (Roman)

Fragment of a stele of white marble; broken on all sides. Above the inscription there are the remains of a crescent.

M14 Cat. 483

Statue Base, Inscription

Marble, Stone

(According to letter shape): (a) 1st–2nd century AD; (b) later Roman Imperial period. (Roman)

Partly damaged base of local marble; parts of the upper and lower molding are preserved. The remains of the last four lines of the first inscription are preserved on the front face (a): H. of letters 0.025. In a later reuse of the base, the left face...

M14 Cat. 484

Altar, Inscription

Marble, Stone

2nd century AD? (letter shape). (Roman)

Altar of white marble, partly damaged. There are moldings above (with acroteria) and below.

M14 Cat. 485

Altar, Inscription

Marble, Stone

Unknown. (Roman)

Lower part of a small altar of white marble, the lower end with molding; broken at top.

M14 Cat. 486

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

Late 4th or early 5th century (see Ameling). On the date of the Synagogue as a whole, see M. Rautman, “Sardis in Late Antiquity,” in Archaeology and the Cities of Asia Minor in Late Antiquity, ed. O. Dally and Ch. Ratté (2011), pp. 16–17; and A. Seager, The Synagogue at Sardis, Sardis Report, forthcoming). (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in a wreath.

M14 Cat. 487

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

After 337–41 AD (date of a coin from beneath the mosaic); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating. (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in a circular frame.

M14 Cat. 488

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

270 AD or thereafter (date of coins from beneath the mosaic); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating. (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in an octagonal frame.

M14 Cat. 489

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

As this mosaic presumably replaced an earlier donor inscription it is to be dated after the middle of the fourth century; ca. 500 (M. H. Williams, The Jews among the Greeks and Romans [1998], p. 33, II, 2); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating. (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in a square frame.

M14 Cat. 490

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

After 341–46 AD (date of the latest coins from beneath the mosaic); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating. (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in a square frame.

M14 Cat. 491

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

Second half of the 4th century AD?; cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating. (Roman)

Mosaic inscription, originally in a square tabula ansata. “All tesserae are missing, but several letters have been identified from their imprint in the concrete bedding” (Kroll).

M14 Cat. 492

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

Second half of the 4th century AD? (Roman)

Fragmentary mosaic.

M14 Cat. 493

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

After 351–61 AD (date of the latest coins from beneath the mosaic). (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in a rectangular frame.

M14 Cat. 494

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

After 324–61 AD (date of the seven coins sealed beneath the mosaic). (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in a square frame.

M14 Cat. 495

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

After 378–83 AD (date of the latest coin from beneath the mosaic). (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in a rectangular frame.

M14 Cat. 496

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

After 367–75 AD (date of the two latest coins from beneath the mosaic). (Roman)

Mosaic inscription in a rectangular frame.

M14 Cat. 497

Mosaic, Inscription

Mosaic

4th–5th century AD (Ameling). (Roman)

Fragment of a wall mosaic; letters formed of beige tesserae are set in a field of bright blue ones, bordered above and below with horizontal rows of beige and black.

M14 Cat. 498

Inscription

Marble, Stone

Hardly before the last quarter of the 4th century AD (Ameling). (Roman)

Fragments of white marble wall revetment.