The Archaeological Exploration of Sardis

(Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 577

Dönem

2nd–3rd century AD?, Roma

Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.

S13.070

Malzeme

Mermer, Taş

Eserin Türü

Mimari, Yazıt

Yazıt Turu

Çeşitli Konularda Yazıt

Yazıt Dili

Yunanca

Yazıt Metni

		-     -     -     -
		      ]Ο̣ΣΗ[
		    ]Α̣ Ἡρακλε̣[-
		ν]εικᾷ Κόρο[ιβος
	4	  ]ΟΝ ἀφ᾿ οὗ ΑΙΙ̣[
		    ]αδες   –   Δ[
		    ]Η̣Σ Σαδυάτ̣[(τ)-
		      ] π̣αῖδες Ι̣[
	8	        ]ν̣ες ἠρξ[-
		        ]ΕΚΑΔΟΥ[
		         ]ΜΟΥΑΛ̣Ι̣[
		         ]Ν̣ΟΑΡΔ̣[
	12	         ]ΨΕΟΣ[
		-     -     -     -

Yazıt Çevirisi

“[- - -] Herakle[- - -] Koro[ibos] is victorious [- - -] since [- - -] Sady-
at[(t)es - - -] children [- - -] ruled [- - -] the (aforementioned) Ard[ys (?) - - -].”

Yazıt Yorumu

Yerleşim

Sardis

Alan (Sektör)

F55

Açma

F55 13.1

Locus

F55 13.1 Locus 12

Koordinatlar

E778.35 / S182.15 *128.958

Bulunduğu Yeri

Field 55, east side of the Wadi B Temple terrace, fills over marble collapse from the late antique Spolia Wall.

Tanım

Fragment of grayish-white marble; broken on all sides. Shaky, careless script.

Boyutlar

H. ca. 0.25, max. W. 0.11, Th. ca. 0.05, H. of letters 0.01–0.011.

Yorum

The possible mentions of the Ἡρακλεῖδαι (l. 2?, cf. Herodotus 1 7; there is, of course, also the possibility of a mention of Herakles), of Σαδυάτ(τ)ης (l. 6), and of ὁ Ἄρδ[υς] (l. 11?) point to the early Lydian history. The word “children,” παῖδες (l. 7), and an aorist form of “to rule,” ἄρχειν (l. 8), fit the possible narrative.

The excellent restoration of l. 3: [ν]εικᾷ Κόρο[ιβος] (“Koroibos is victorious”), suggested by M. Ricl (per litt.) takes us to the year 776 BC. It was then that Koroibos from Elis won the stadium race in the first Olympic contest; see L. Moretti, Olympionikai, i vincitori negli antichi agoni olimpici (Memorie dell’Accademia dei Lincei, 1957), p. 59, no. 1.

The occurrence of the phrase ἀφ᾿ οὗ (l. 4, “since”) may suggest that the reported events were presented in the form of a chronicle (cf. the Marmor Parium, IG XII 5, 444); Ricl considers [πρῶτ]ον ἀφ᾿ οὗ αἱ [ - - - Ὀλυμπι]άδες (“for the first time since the - - - Olympic contests”).

For a possible connection with no. 578 see the commentary there.

Ayrıca bakınız

Bkz.: M14, No. 578.

Kaynakça

Unpublished. (See now Thonemann 2020.)

Yazar

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