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Clay Cinerary Urn with Painted Inscription (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Clay Cinerary Urn with Painted Inscription: Augustan Funerary Inscription for Daughter of Aischrion
- Date
- In Augustus’s reign?, Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- P59.398
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπὶ στε]φανη- φόρου Καίσαρ[ος], μηνὸς Ξανδ̣ι̣κοῦ̣· 4 [ . . ]άτη Αἰσχρίωνος τ̣ο̣ῦ̣ Αἰσχρίωνος [ . . . ]ΝΛ̣Δ[ ]
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Caesar held the office of the stephanephoros, in the month Xandikos: [- -]ate, daughter of Aischrion, son of Aischrion [- -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- HoB 59
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W10 / S60 *97.63
- Findspot
- House of Bronzes, Grave N, beneath original tomb floor.
- Description
Cinerary urn of clay with painted inscription.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.37, max. Diam. 0.29, H. of letters 0.02–0.025.
- Comments
1–2 For emperors taking over the (costs of the) office of stephanephoria see L. Robert, Et. épig. philol., pp. 144–50; R. K. Sherk, ZPE 96 (1993), pp. 285–88; Th. Boulay and A.-V. Pont, “Trajan éponyme à Iasos et les éponymies impériales en Asie mineure occidentale,” in Chalkètôr en Carie (2014), pp. 81–113; cf. no. 599,1–2 comm.
The Καῖσαρ of l. 2 was probably Augustus; he is mentioned as stephanephoros in I.Didyma, no. 234B II, 2–3 (17/16 BC): ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Καίσαρος, cf. L. Robert, Hellenica XI–XII, p. 487; and again when he was stephanephoros for the second time, in I.Didyma, no. 346, 6–7 (7 BC): στεφανηφοροῦντος Καίσαρος τὸ δεύτερον. Cf. here nos. 444 and 574 comm.
4 [ . . ]άτη: [Ἐλ]άτη? On that name, attested for a woman from Lydian Thyateira (IGSK 62 [Sultan Dağı], no. 1), see L. Robert, Noms indig., pp. 214–15; the name “tire son origine d’une comparaison avec le sapin.” Or [Ἀπ]άτη? The name is attested in Lydia: see SEG 56, 1264 (northeastern Lydia, 88–89 AD); and F. von Saldern in Blaundos, ed. A. Filges (2006 = IstForsch 48), pp. 331–32, no. 18 (early Imperial period).
6 [ . . . ]ΝΛ̣Δ[ ]: [ἐτῶ]ν λ̣δ´?
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. [Plate 9]
- Author
- GP