• r2-49-10
    Fragment with Lydian inscription, overview. (Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)

Lidce Yazıtlı Anthemion Stel Parçası

Dönem
Later 5th or 4th C. BC?, Geç Lidya (Pers)?
Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
IN67.001
Malzeme
Mermer, Taş
Eserin Türü
Heykel
Heykelin Türü
Stel
Yerleşim
Sardis
Alan (Sektör)
B
Açma
BE-H
Locus
B BE-H
Koordinatlar
E18.05 / N81.95 *98.35
Bulunduğu Yeri
Reused by Roman builders in N wall of BE-H. Found in core of W end of wall while removing loose material prior to restoration.
Tanım

The carefully cut ornament includes part of a downward-pointed lotus with five thin leaves, a concave leaf-like ending to the lower part of a volute, and a rounded part above. The finial projected sideways from the shaft. The leaf-like volute end continues an archaic tradition (cf. Cat. 46 Figs. 150-151), but the thin irregular lotus leaves are post-archaic. The overall composition was probably like Cat. 45 (Figs. 148-149) and the stele from Daskylion (Borchhardt, Epichorische Reliefs, pl. 44:1, here Fig. 152).

This inscription and this grave stele are of [name lost] the son of Artimus. Now who to this inscription [or this grave stele does damage . . .]

Terming the inscription “one of the most representative and careful examples of Lydian epigraphy,” Gusmani concurs in dating the fragment to the later 5th or 4th C. B.C.

Condition

”Local” marble; reddish accretion.

Preserved are center and lower r. parts of anthemion (finial) and top of shaft with first two lines of inscription. Split diagonally and at lower edge; part of l. side missing. Back very roughly dressed if at all.

Boyutlar
W. 038; P.H. (r. end) 0.26; Th. 0.125.
Yorum
For the general type see also Richter, Archaic Gravestones, 40 reconstruction of painted ornament with downward-pointed leaves.
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Kaynakça
Published: BASOR191, 14f., fig. 15; Gusmani, Neuen Lydischen Fund, 52f., no. 70;Gusmani, Sardis M3, 3-6, fig. 3, no. A I 2; Hanfmann, Stelai, 44, fig. 6 (H-48).
Yazar
GMAH