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Inscribed Roof-shaped Cinerary Chest (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Roof-shaped Cinerary Chest: Funerary Inscription for Menodotos, son of Menodotos, from tribe Pelopis
- Date
- Probably second half of the 1st century BC or early Roman Imperial period (Herrmann, thus modifying SPRT, p. 253 n. 64: “Hellenistic”)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.041
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Χάρμου, μη(νὸς) Ἀρτεμισίου [ . ] ἀ̣πιόντος· Μηνόδοτος Μηνοδότου [φυ]λῆς Πελοπίδος.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when the stephanephoros Charmos held office, on the [-]last day of the month Artemisios, (died) Menodotos, son of Menodotos, from the tribe Pelopis.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- Findspot
- Pactolus North, on the southern wall of the mosaic room. Expedition compound.
- Description
Roof-shaped lid of a cinerary chest of marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.46, W. 0.28, Th. 0.07, H. of letters 0.012–0.017.
- Comments
MOY
1 XAP the stone. Sardis VII 1, no. 105: Ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Χάρμου τὸ γ´; see nos. 584, 585 comm., 586 comm. Charmos seems to belong to the later phase of dating after the stephanephoros (see no. 593, 1–2 comm.).
2 Hardly any space available for the day’s indication.
3 [φυ]λῆς Πελοπίδος (see also no. 384, 1): N. F. Jones, Public Organization in Ancient Greece (1987), p. 355; the same name in Pergamon (Jones, p. 353). On the Pelops tradition and its significance for Sardis, see P. Weiß, WürzJbb 10 (1984), pp. 183, 198 n. 20; P. Herrmann, Chiron 23 (1993), pp. 241–42; cf. U. Kunnert, Bürger unter sich: Phylen in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Ostens (2012), p. 126 with n. 481.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Mentioned in SPRT, pp. 86, 95, 111, 253 n. 64, and p. 259 n. 30, fig. 170. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP