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Mosaic Inscription in Square Frame (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Mosaic Inscription in square frame (from Synagogue, Forecourt): Votive Inscription by Aurelios Eulogios, Godfearer
- Date
- After 324–61 AD (date of the seven coins sealed beneath the mosaic)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.298
- Material
- Mosaic
- Object Type
- Mosaic, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Αὐρ. Εὐλό- γιος θεο- σεβὴς εὐ- 4 χὴν ἐτέ- λεσα.
- Inscription Translation
- “Aur(elios) Eulogios, Godfearer, I fulfilled a vow” (Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- RT 62
- Locus
- Syn FC Pavement
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E95.36 - E96.06 / N9.84 - N10.54
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Forecourt, western side, center of panel W3.
- Description
Mosaic inscription in a square frame.
- Dimensions
- H. and W. 0.58, H. of letters 0.06.
- Comments
1 AYP followed by a mark of abbreviation.
2–3 θεοσεβής: see no. 493, 3 comm.
5 ἐτέ/λησα: erroneously Scheibelreiter.
Date: cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- L. Robert, Nouv. inscr. Sard. I, p. 39, no. 4, pl. IV; with fuller bibliography: Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 20, no. 9; and p. 66, fig. 12 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 243–44, no. 68; AE 2001, 1876; Scheibelreiter, Stifterinschriften, pp. 44–45, no. 11, fig. 19).
- Author
- GP