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Mosaic Inscription in Wreath (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mosaic Inscription in wreath (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Apse): Votive, by the Flavii Stratonikianos and Synphoros
- Date
- Late 4th or early 5th century (see Ameling). On the date of the Synagogue as a whole, see M. Rautman, “Sardis in Late Antiquity,” in Archaeology and the Cities of Asia Minor in Late Antiquity, ed. O. Dally and Ch. Ratté (2011), pp. 16–17; and A. Seager, The Synagogue at Sardis, Sardis Report, forthcoming)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
- Museum Inventory No.
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.122
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Φλάβιοι Στρατ[ον]εικι- [α]νὸς v [κ]αὶ 4 [Σ]ύ̣νφορ[ο]ς ὑ- [π]ὲρ εὐχῆ- ς.
- Inscription Translation
- “The Flavii Stratonikianos and Synphoros in fulfillment of a vow.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Pavement
- B-Grid Coordinates
- ca. E36.27 - E37.89 / N9.34 - N11.17
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, apse.
- Description
Mosaic inscription in a wreath.
- Dimensions
- Interior Diam. 0.42, H. of letters 0.05–0.06.
- Comments
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” pp. 15–16, no. 1, with further references; and p. 60, fig. 5 a–b (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 232–33, no. 60, with further references; SEG 51, 1626; AE 2001, 1872; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, pp. 51–52, no. 18, figs. 25–26).
- Author
- GP