The epigraphical part of the contribution deals with three votive inscriptions (4th-6th cent.) found in the synagogue of Sardis, they have been published several times but their reading and understanding can be improved: No. 1 is the fragment of a verse inscription (the only one of this group of dedications): A lady (or several ladies) offered a part of the building “on behalf of the children and the husband(s)”, the preserved rest of the hexameter seems to be inspired by the Posthomerica of Quintus Smyrnaeus. No. 2 is the dedicatory inscription of a [Ma]rkell[e]inos (former reading: [Au]r. Kelainos), he had given a portion of the marble revetment as ex-voto “on behalf of his relatives and [- -]adia, his nurse” (the latter word had not been understood from the preserved letters). The graffito no. 3, scratched into the marble floor, had been understood as “Vow of Mapa(?)”, the first letter of the enigmatic MAPA is in fact a Lambda. The vow had thus been made by a man called Lapâs, a name attested elsewhere, derived from the verb laptô, “lap with the tongue, drink greedily”, probably an allusion to a weak spot of its bearer.
Alan : Sosyal, Beşeri ve İdari Bilimler
Dergi Türü : Uluslararası
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