• m14-428-10
    (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)

    Dönem
    4th–6th century AD (Hanfmann and Ramage)., Roma
    Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
    IN72.026
    Malzeme
    Mermer, Taş
    Eserin Türü
    Mimari, Yazıt
    Yazıt Turu
    Yapı Yazıtı
    Yazıt Dili
    Yunanca
    Yazıt Metni
    		Οἱ κρήνης ποτ᾿ ὕπερθε μέσην κατ᾿ ἄγυιαν ὁδοῖο
    		πᾶσι παρερχομένοισιν ὁρώμενοί εἰσι δράκοντες
    		οὗτοι χαλκείῃσιν ἐλισσόμενοι φολίδεσσι,
    	4	οὓς Βασίλισκος ἔθηκε δικασπόλος ἔνθα κομίσσας
    		χρυσῷ ἐρευθομένους ὑπὸ δε‹ι›ράδα μέχρι καρήνων
    	           νέρθεν ἄνω πέμποντας ἐπὶ στόμα χεύματα πηγῆς.
    Yazıt Çevirisi
    “These are the snakes which were once seen by everyone passing by, above the fountain in the middle of the public road. Basiliskos, who held the office of judge, brought them there and set them up, wound round with brazen scales, reddened with gold from their necks to their heads, sending up the streams of the fountain from below to their mouths” (mostly after C. Foss).
    Yazıt Yorumu
    Yerleşim
    Sardis
    Alan (Sektör)
    B
    Açma
    MC 72
    Locus
    B BE-H
    Koordinatlar
    E3 / N48 *96.5
    Bulunduğu Yeri
    Bath-Gymnasium Complex, BE-H frigidarium.
    Tanım

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

    Boyutlar
    Max. H. 0.75, W. 0.91, Th. 0.84–0.91, H. of letters 0.025–0.027.
    Yorum

    3 φολίδεσσι: the stone; φολίδεσσιν edd.

    Ayrıca bakınız
    Bkz.: R2, No. 278.
    Kaynakça
    G. M. A. Hanfmann and J. C. Waldbaum, R1, p. 173 n. 75; C. Foss, M4, pp. 114–15, no. 17 (SEG 26, 1317); Hanfmann and N. Ramage, R2, p. 179, no. 278, fig. 471; Foss in R3, p. 171, no. 7, fig. 205 (SEG 36, 1098; R. Merkelbach and J. Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten 1 [1998], p. 401, no. 04/02/03).
    Yazar
    GP