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(©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele: Dedication to the Lydian Mother of the Gods, by Gaius Iulius Trophimos and his family
- Date
- Not too late in the 1st century AD (Robert)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx64.008c
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Μητρὶ Θεῶν Λυδ[ίαι] Γάιος Ἰούλιος Τρόφιμος μετὰ 4 [Ἰ]ουλίας Ζωσίμης [τ]ῆς γυναικὸς [κα]ὶ Σαβείνου [καὶ Σ]αβείνης 8 [καὶ Μά]γνας [τῶν τέκ]νων.
- Inscription Translation
- “Gaius Iulius Trophimos, together with Iulia Zosime, his wife, and Sabinus, Sabina, and Magna, their children, (erected the stele) for the Lydian Mother of the Gods.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sazköy
- Findspot
- On the northern bank of the Gygaean Lake.
- Description
Stele of marble with molding above; upper side damaged, broken on the left and below. L. 1 is above, ll. 2–9 are below the molding.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.55, max. W. 0.44, max. Th. 0.21.
- Comments
Robert’s text.
7 Robert and the subsequent editors have [κα]ὶ Σαβείνης.
Robert “points out that the Lydian mother of the gods was explicitly distinguished from her Phrygian counterpart, the meter theoon par excellence, because of ‘Lydian nationalism’” (SEG).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- L. Robert, BCH 106 (1982), pp. 359–61 (= Doc. As. Min., pp. 321–23), no. 2, fig. 18 (SEG 32, 1238; De Hoz, Kulte, p. 237, no. 40.12).
- Author
- GP