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Inscribed Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Fragment: Probably Belonging to Dossier Concerning Measures Taken by Antiochos III after Recapture of Sardis?
- Date
- Probably late 3rd century BC., Hellenistic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.001
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Letter or Dossier Containing Letters, Decisions, Petitions, Subscriptiones, Honors
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
]μ̣ου ἔτου[ς ]ΣΗΝ ἐποιη[- ] vacat [ 3 ]Τ̣ΟΡΑ̣Λ̣[ - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] year [- - -] made [- - -]”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- RT
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- RT South Colonnade (area of)
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E35 - E40 / S30
- Findspot
- Road Trench, south colonnade of the Marble Road.
- Description
Fragment of marble with only a part of the upper edge preserved; broken on the other sides. Hellenistic letters: omicra in ll. 1–2 are very small and “hanging” in the lines from above (less so in l. 3); the right “leg” of Π is shorter than the left one.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.12, W. ca. 0.20, Th. ca. 0.21, H. of letters 0.01–0.015.
- Comments
1 [ἑβδό]μ̣ου ἔτου[ς]?
3 The first preserved letter seems to be a T, not a Γ.
The similarity of the letters with those of nos. 307–313 makes it probable that the fragment belongs to the dossier concerning the measures of Antiochos III after his recapture of Sardis (216–214/13 BC; see Gauthier, Nouv. inscr. Sard. II, pp. 15–19). The present fragment was—like the royal documents—discovered in 1963.
The precise nature of the inscription to which the fragment belonged is uncertain.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP