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Inscribed Base Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Base Fragment: Honorific Inscription for Flavius Eugenetor
- Date
- 2nd–3rd century AD (second neokoria, reign of Hadrian, until Elagabalus; see no. 397, 5 comm.)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- S15.030
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Statue Base, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Honorific Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Φλ(άβιον) Εὐγενέ̣[τορα, τὸν] κράτιστον [ἐπίτρο]- πον τῶν Σ[εβαστῶν], 4 ἄνδρα εὐπ[ρεπῆ (?) καὶ] v v δικαιότα̣[τον v v] ἡ βουλὴ καὶ ὁ δ[ῆμος τῆς] αὐτόχθονος [καὶ πρω]- 8 τόχθονος καὶ [ἱερᾶς] [τ]ῶν θεῶν καὶ μη̣[τρο]- πόλεως τῆς Ἀσί[ας καὶ] Λυδίας ἁπάσης [καὶ Ἑλ]- 12 λάδος κὲ δὶς νεω[κόρου] τῶν Σεβαστῶν [κατὰ] [τ]ὰ̣ δόγματα τ̣[ῆς ἱερᾶς] [συν]κ̣λήτ̣[ου καὶ τὰς κρί]- 16 [σεις] τῶ[ν αὐτοκρατόρων] - - - - - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “The Council and the People of [the city of the Sardians], autochthonous and protochthonous and [sacred] to the gods and metropolis of Asia and of all Lydia and of Hellas, and keeper of two Koinon temples of the Augusti by virtue of the decrees of the sacred Senate [and the decisions] of the [emperors - - - (honored)] Fl(avius) Eugene[tor], vir egregius, procurator Augustorum, a [decent(?) and] very lawful man.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- F55
- Trench
- F55 15.3
- Locus
- F55 15.3 Locus 28
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E773.67 / S184.98 *128.868
- Findspot
- Field 55, east side of Wadi B Temple terrace.
- Description
Fragment of a rectangular base of white marble. Only parts of the faces are preserved; a rectangular hole has been cut into the upper left rear corner.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.92, W. 0.525, max. Th. 0.50, average H. of letters 0.025.
- Comments
No. 383 seems to have honored the same person with an identical text.
1–3 The honorific inscription IGRR I 822 = IGSK 19, no. 28 from Koila (Thracian Chersonesus) ends with the words ἐπιτροπεύοντος τῆς ἐπαρχείας (i.e., procurator provinciae Thraciae, regionis Chersonesi) Φλ. Εὐγενέτορος; see A. Stein, PIR2 F 264; H. G. Pflaum, Les carrières procuratoriennes…, vol. III (1961), p. 1069; also vol. I (1960), p. 31.
3 τῶν Σ[εβαστῶν]: Emperors, who reigned simultaneously (e.g., Marcus Aurelius and Lucius Verus or Commodus), or successively?
4 ἄνδρα εὐπ[ρεπῆ (?)]: Cf. IG XII 7, 53 (Arkesine, Amorgos), 17: εὐπρεπὴς ἀνήρ. Hardly εὔπ[ορον] (“full of resources”).
7–8 The combination αὐτόχθων (cf. Sardis VII 1, nos. 63, b1 and 66) καὶ πρωτόχθων does not seem to be attested elsewhere in the titles of Sardis; it should probably be restored in no. 383, 6–8. Cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 13, 12: τῇ αὐτ]όχθονι (τῇ πρωτ]όχθονι, L. Moretti RivFil 94 [1966], p. 300 = id., Tra epigrafia e storia [1990], p. 315 n. 3 [see no. 418]) καὶ πρεσβίστῃ Σαρδιανῶν πόλει, with the editors’ commentary: “[αὐτ]όχθονι: this title, by which Sardis boasted of her antiquity, became later on one of her official titles”; A. Heller, “Ἀρχαιότης et εὐγένεια. Le thème des origines dans les cités grecques d’Asie Mineure à l’époque impériale” (2006 = Ktèma 31, pp. 97–108), pp. 102–5.
15–16 Restored from no. 383, 15–17.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP