Inscribed Architrave Fragment: Building Inscription for the Statio of Sardis on the Forum Romanum?
- Date
- “Fine del II o agli inizi del III secolo” (Moretti, ed. pr. 301 [= p. 316], n. 1)., Roman
- Museum
- Antiquarium del Foro Romano, 5888
- Museum Inventory No.
- 5888
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Antiquarium 5888
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Architecture, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Building Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
π]ρωτοχθο̣[ν-
- Inscription Translation
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Rome
- Findspot
- Found in 1878 near the temple of Romulus on the Via Sacra.
- Description
Piece of an architrave; broken on all sides.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.13, W. 0.28, Th. 0.20, H. of letters 0.055.
- Comments
Moretti considers the supplement [Σαρδιανῶν π]ρωτοχθό̣[νων] (“of the protochthonous Sardians”), cf. no. 382, 7–8 comm. According to him, the fragment and its findspot clearly indicate that the architrave belonged to the statio of Sardis on the Forum Romanum, part of the stationes civitatum exterarum.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Antiquarium del Foro Romano (inv. no. 5888). - G. Kaibel, IG XIV 2236 (from R. Lanciani, BullCom. VI [1878], p. 257); L. Moretti, RivFil 94 (1966), pp. 300–301 (= id., Tra epigrafia e storia [1990], pp. 315–16 [in the latter edition, p. 419, reference to J. and L. Robert, BE 1967, 685]); id., IGUR I 85.
- Author
- GP