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Inscribed Revetment Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Revetment Fragments (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 4): Revetment Inscription, ex voto, by Leontios, Godfearer
- Date
- 5th–6th century AD (Bonz); cf. no. 486 on Synagogue dating., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.127
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Religious Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Λεόντιος θεοσεβὴς ἐκ τῶν τῆς Προνοίας δομά- των τὸ διάχωρον ὑπὲρ εὐ- 4 χῆς ἐσκούτλωσα.
- Inscription Translation
- “Leontios, Godfearer, from the gifts of Providence, in fulfillment of a vow, I gave the revetment of the bay” (mostly after Kroll).
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- Syn
- Trench
- Syn 63
- Locus
- Syn MH Above Floor
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E65 - E67 / N18 - N19.2 *96.50
- Findspot
- Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 4, north wall.
- Description
Panel of wall revetment of white marble; broken in many fragments, some of which are missing. On the upper and the right sides are the remains of moldings (one groove and two grooves, respectively).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.40, W. 0.98, H. of letters 0.045.
- Comments
1 “Leontios, who is called θεοσεβής, was a pious Jew, not a gentile sympathizer.” Bonz “argues that Leontios was a prominent member of the Jewish Sardis community”; with reference to “the Jewish family (clan) of the Leontioi” (φυλῆς Λεοντίων), no. 495 (quotations from SEG 45); but see also Ameling’s commentary. For θεοσεβής, see no. 493, 2–3 comm.
3 διάχωρον: “bay,” “a division of lateral wall, six to seven meters in width, that ran from pier to pier in the Main Hall” (Kroll, p. 12); cf. διαχώρημα no. 488, 6.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- M. Palmer Bonz, HSCP 96 (1994), pp. 292–93 (SEG 45, 1647); A. Th. Kraabel in Stud. on the Jewish Diaspora…, B. Isaac and A. Oppenheimer (1996), p. 77; Kroll, “Inscr. Synagogue,” p. 27, no. 22; and p. 78, fig. 24 (Ameling, Inscr. Jud. Or. II, pp. 256–57, no. 83).
- Author
- GP