• m14-429-10
    (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)
  • m14-429-20
    (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)

Dönem
ca. 570 AD (Merkelbach and Stauber)., Roma
Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
IN61.004
Malzeme
Mermer, Taş
Eserin Türü
Mimari, Yazıt
Yazıt Turu
Yapı Yazıtı
Yazıt Dili
Yunanca
Yazıt Metni
(a)
Verse	1	[Θαῦμ]ά μ᾿ ἔχει, πόθεν ἔργον [⏑ – ⏑⏑ –]ατο γαῖα
	2	[δώμ]ατος ὑψορόφου χρυσαυγέος ἀπλετ[⏑ – – ]
	3	[ . . ]ΡΟΝΙ Β̣ΟΥ [ . . . ]ΕΣΚΕΠΛ̣[ . . . ]ΤΟ γῆ[ρ]ας
	4	Μ̣[εμ]νόνιος πάτρης γενετὴ̣[ρ] νῦ[ν  – ⏑⏑ – –]
	5	ὡς ἴδεν, ὡς κόσμ[ησε ⏑ – ⏑ καὶ αὐ]τίκα τεῦξεν vac.
	6	κόσμον ἀεὶ ζώον[τ]α, τὸν οὐ φθόνος οἶ[δεν ὀλέσσαι ?]
	7	ὤπασε δ᾿ εὐρὺ θέμιλον ἀναπτύξας [⏑⏑ – –]
	8	αἰὲν ὀπιπευε[ . . . ]ΙΝ[ . . . ]ΧΡΥΣ[	 ].
(b)
Line 1  † Ἀνενεώθη ἡ  χρυσόροφ[ος  . . . ] τῆς πόλεως ἰνδ(ικτίωνι) η´, μη(νὶ) Ἰουλίῳ οὕτως σκουτλω[σ-   - - - ]
Line 2   στρώσε(ις) δὲ τοῦ ἐδ[άφους  . . . ]ΙΝ δίχα τοῦ μουσίου καὶ τῶν ἄλλ[ων  - - - ]
Yazıt Çevirisi
(a) “I am amazed how the Earth [was capable of bringing about] such a gigantic edifice with a high-vaulted, gold-shining roof; formerly it was an old, [dilapidated building]; but when Memnonios, the Father of the city, saw this, he set about restoring [the building] to its former beauty and turned it into an eternally living jewel that envy cannot [destroy]. He added a broad foundation, unfolding [ - - - ], always bearing in mind that [ - - - ].”
(b) “The [ - - - ] with the golden roof was refurbished [by - - - ] of the city in the eighth year of the indictio, in the month of July, in this way the revetment [ - - - ] the pavings of the floor [ - - - ] apart from the mosaic and the other [ - - - ].”
Yazıt Yorumu
Yerleşim
Sardis
Alan (Sektör)
B
Açma
BE 61
Locus
B Marble Court
Koordinatlar
ca. E23 - E25 / N74 - N79
Bulunduğu Yeri
Bath-Gymnasium Complex, Marble Court. Now incorporated in the building.
Tanım

“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.

Yorum

I have checked the inscription. The brackets indicating the lacunae are given according to F2; Foss’s editio princeps is less accurate.

(a) 1 [ ]ΑΤΟ: edd.; there is perhaps the lower part of an Y visible before A.

2 ἀπλετ[ ]: ἀπλέτ[ου ] edd.

3 . . ΡΟΝΙ Β̣ΟΥ . . .: only F2, the fragment is not built in the court. - ΕΣΚΕΠΛ̣[ ]: Π is followed by the lower left part of a triangular letter; ΕΣΚΕΠ edd.

4 Μ̣[εμ]νόνιος: (suppl. C. P. Jones in F2). Merkelbach and Stauber identify him with the father of the historian and poet Agathias (PLRE III 872/3). They think that Agathias (ca. 536–582 AD) may have been the author of the present poem; Anthologia Palatina VII 552 is a poem of Agathias on his mother Perikleia; another Memnonios in no. 550, 2. - γενετή̣[ρ]: Merkelbach and Stauber; γενέ̣τ̣η̣[ς]: Foss.

5 ὡς ἴδ⌞εν, ὡς κόσμ⌟[ησε] (the letters included in half brackets are now missing): see Merkelbach and Stauber’s commentary on this verse whose beginning is modeled on Homer Ξ 294. - [καί]: Merkelbach and Stauber.

6 οἶ[δεν …] F2. - [ὀλέσσαι ?]: Merkelbach and Stauber.

8 ὀπιπευε[ ]: perhaps -ΠΕΥΘ̣[ ].

(b) 1 ἀνενεώθη: see no. 540 comm. - πόλεως: the Ω is corrected from Ο. - Ἰουλίῳ: there is a small Φ written into the Λ. - σκουτλω[σ- ]: σκούτλω[σιν] F2 (SEG 36). For the term see no. 498 comm.

Ayrıca bakınız
Kaynakça
C. Foss, M4, p. 114, no. 16 (SEG 26, 1316). C. Foss in R3, pp. 171–72, no. 8, figs. 122–23 (below: “F2”; SEG 36, 1099; R. Merkelbach and J. Stauber, Steinepigramme aus dem griechischen Osten 1 [1998], p. 402, no. 04/02/04).
Yazar
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