https://s3.amazonaws.com/atg-prod-oaas-files/haaimagehosting/original/b737f7d3053e0770476f3e20a3eb7cc0.jpg 1e54125cda51559567f5d87923a7b0fd Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Late Antiquity Sardis IIIF Collection Metadata UUID 0f176d88-1d25-42de-9209-46c7e540914b Dublin Core The Dublin Core metadata element set is common to all Omeka records, including items, files, and collections. For more information see, http://dublincore.org/documents/dces/. Title A name given to the resource Mosaic Inscription in square frame (from Synagogue, Main Hall, Bay 4): Votive (Building/renovation?) Inscription by Samoes, priest Subject The topic of the resource Mosaic inscription in square frame, Sardis, mosaic, 0.9 x 0.9 m Description An account of the resource DESCRIPTION Mosaic inscription in a square frame. INSCRIPTION TYPE Religious Inscription INSCRIPTION LANGUAGE Greek INSCRIPTION TEXT Εὐχὴ [Σ]α̣μοῆ ἱε- [ρ]έω̣ς κὲ σο- 4 φοδιδασ- κάλου. INSCRIPTION TRANSLATION “Vow of Samoés, Priest and Teacher of wisdom” (Kroll, who has “of Samoé”). COMMENTS 2 Σαμοῆ seems to be the genitive of Σαμο(υ)ῆς, a by-form of Σαμουῆλ (Ameling; see also Kroll’s commentary). 2–3 ἱε/[ρ]έω̣ς: my reading from the photograph; ἱε/ρέος, edd. The dedicant was “a descendant of the priesthood that anciently served in the Temple of Jerusalem”; they “were accorded the privileges of pronouncing certain benedictions during services and as preferred readers of the Torah” (Kroll; see Ameling, pp. 158–59). 3–5 σοφοδιδάσκαλος is a hapax legomenon: probably virtually identical with the known function of a νομοδιδάσκαλος (Ameling). The mosaic bearing the inscription was a “late intrusion into the surrounding mosaic,” and it is generally assumed that the vow was “connected with the construction that was supported on the four stone bases that were set into the floor around the inscription” (Kroll). See Kroll’s and Ameling’s commentaries with further references. IIIF Item Metadata UUID 20b188c4-9c1a-40e0-b9af-446162204a97