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Mosaic Inscription (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mosaic Inscription (from MMS/N south colonnade): Building Inscription Marking Donation of Mosaic
- Date
- After 590/91 AD (Evans, M13, pp. 83–85)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN80.005
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Building Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ε[. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .]Ο̣ καὶ ΕΚΤ[. . . . .] [ ] Δ[. . .]Υ̣[ ] 4 ΥΠ̣ΑΤ̣[ ] Τ̣Ο̣ΔΕΥΤ̣Ε̣[. . . . . . . .] tendril
- Inscription Translation
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS/N
- Trench
- MMS/N 80.1
- Locus
- MMS/N 89.1 Locus 6
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E150 - E151 / S26.5 - S30 *99.2
- Findspot
- MMS/N, south colonnade, upper mosaic (over no.
426 ).
- Description
Mosaic inscription from Upper Mosaic of south colonnade of Roman colonnaded avenue.
- Comments
SEG summarizes Scheibelreiter’s commentary as follows:
The inscription concerns the donation of the mosaic.
1 ἐκ τ[ῶν ἰδίων]?, Scheibelreiter.
4–5 A form of ὕπατος, ὑπατικός or ἀνθύπατος, Scheibelreiter. D. Feissel, BE 2009, 616 suggests ὑπατ[ίᾳ τοῦ δεῖνος] / τ̣ὸ̣ δεύτ̣ε̣[ρον]; thus the consulate of Anastasius (497, “sans collègue”), Justinus I (524, “mais l’inscription n’a pas de place pour son collègue Opilio”), or Justinianus (528, “sans collègue”). P. Herrmann, in a letter to Scheibelreiter, pointed out that ΤΑΔΕ or ΤΙΔΕ is more probable than ΤΟΔΕ.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, pp. 35–36, no. 6, fig. 12 (SEG 56, 1340).
- Author
- GP