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    Mosaic Inscription in Rectangular Frame (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Mosaic Inscription in rectangular frame (from Synagogue, Forecourt): Votive Inscription by Aurelios Polyhippos, Godfearer

Date
After 351–61 AD (date of the latest coins from beneath the mosaic)., Roman
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
Museum Inventory No.
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
IN62.300
Material
Mosaic
Object Type
Mosaic, Inscription
Inscription Type
Religious Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		    Αὐρ. leaf
		Πολύιππος
		θεοσεβὴς εὐ-
	4	ξάμενος ἐ-
		πλήρωσα.
Inscription Translation
“Aur(elios) Polyhippos, Godfearer, having made a vow, I fulfilled it” (Kroll).
Inscription Comment
Site
Sardis
Sector
Syn
Trench
RT 62
Locus
Syn FC Pavement
B-Grid Coordinates
E95.58 - E96.17 / N13.48 - N14.21
Findspot
Synagogue, Forecourt, western side, center of panel W4.
Description

Mosaic inscription in a rectangular frame.

Dimensions
H. 0.42, W. 0.60. H. of letters 0.06.
Comments

1 AYP followed by a mark of abbreviation.

3 θεοσεβής: see B. Wander, Gottesfürchtige und Sympathisanten (1998), pp. 110–11; S. Mitchell, “Wer waren die Gottesfürchtigen?” Chiron 28 (1998), pp. 55–64.

Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.

See Also
Bibliography
L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 39, no. 5, pl. IV; with fuller bibliography: Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 20, no. 8; and p. 65, fig. 11 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 241–42, no. 67; AE 2001, 1875; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, pp. 46–48, no. 13, fig. 21).
Author
GP