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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid: Funerary inscription for Demetrios (Eupator), son of Antaios
- Date
- Probably second half of the 1st century BC or early Imperial period (Herrmann)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx69.047
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ Χάρμου, μηνὸς v Λῴου· Δημήτριος Ἀνταίου ὁ καὶ Εὐπάτωρ.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Charmos held office (of a stephanephoros), in the month Loos (died) Demetrios, also called Eupator, son of Antaios.”
- Inscription Comment
- Findspot
- Brought “from the mountain.”
- Description
Cinerarium lid of fine white marble. Lunate sigma.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.36, W. 0.46, Th. 0.08, H. of letters 0.018.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and commentary.
1 For the date of the stephanephoros Charmos, see the commentaries on nos. 583, 1 and 586, 1.
2 For Ἀνταῖος, a name connected to Hekate Antaia, see IGSK 2 (Erythrai), no. 345; L. Robert, Hellenica XI–XII, p. 230 n. 6; p. 489 n. 5; Hellenica XIII, p. 286; and Monnaies ant. Troade, p. 65.
3 Demetrios’s second name Eupator may originally have been an epithet (“born of a noble sire,” LSJ).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP