Temple Mortgages in Sardis Summary
Temple Mortgages Waltes Woodbtjen Hyde, “Review of Buckler and Robinson’s Sardis, VII, 1: Greek and Latin Inscriptions,” Journal Of The American Oriental Society 53, no. 1 (n.d.): 178–80. Sardis, VII, 1 ; Greek and Latin Inscriptions. By W. H. Buckles and D. M. Eobinson. Leyden : 1933. 4to. Pp. ii -1- 198, with XIII plates and 212 figures in the text. Sardis Inscriptions on Temple Mortgages … The material is conveniently presented in five groups, the inscrip- tions of each group being arranged chronologically: Documents and Public Eecords, the most important group (1-20) ; Honorific Texts (21-84) ; Votive Texts and Dedications (85-lOlh) ; Sepul- chral Inscriptions, by far the largest of all (102-176); and Mis- cellaneous Texts and Fragments (177-228). While no inscription of outstanding historical importance has been found, there are many, especially in Group 1, which are of value and interest. Thus No. 1, pp. 1-7, Pis. I-II, from a stone found inside the temple in 1910 and dating from c. 200 B. C., is republished from AJA XYI, 1912, 11-82. It describes a temple mortgage securing a loan on lands to a certain Mnesimachos and has interesting legal features. No. 8, the longest inscription in the book, pp. 16-27, PI. IV, also republished from the same Journal, XVIII, 1914, 322-62, contains twelve doctiments concerning a certain Menogenes of Sardis which date from 5-1 B. C. — three letters, one from Augustus to the Sardians, and nine decrees of the commonalty of Asia or the Council of Sardis, an interesting record in the his- tory of the Eoman province of Asia. ...