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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid: Funerary Inscription for Gaius Teidius Veturia, son of Gaius
- Date
- Probably second half of the 1st century BC or early Imperial period (Herrmann)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN73.015
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ Χάρμου τοῦ Χάρμου τὸ γ´, μη(νὸς) ς´ v ις´· Γάιος Τηΐδιος, Γαΐου Ὑετυρία, μετήλλαξεν 4 ἐ(τῶν) v ξγ´.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Charmos, son of Charmos, held office (of a stephanephoros) for the third time, on the sixteenth day of the sixth month, died Gaius Teidius C. f. Veturia, aged 63 years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN/E
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W235.6 / S388 *89.51
- Findspot
- Pactolus North.
- Description
Cinerarium lid of gray marble. The letters stand between guidelines.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.38, W. 0.46, Th. 0.06, H. of letters 0.018.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and notes.
1 For the stephanephoros Charmos, whose third period of office is also mentioned in no. 586 and Sardis VII 1, no. 105, see no. 586, 1 comm. The name of his father occurs only here. - τό: T with o above it.
2 For the numbering of months, see P. Thonemann, ZPE 196 (2015), p. 133, with n. 62; in Sardis: Sardis VII 1, nos. 106 and 122. The sixth month corresponds to Xandikos. - μη(νὸς) ς´ v ις´: M with H written above it; small horizontal strokes above the ciphers.
Τηΐδιος: For the name, Herrmann refers to Τήδιος, MAMA VI 16 = IGSK 49 (Laodikeia am Lykos), no. 116; see L. Robert, Noms indig., p. 195. For the nomen gentile Te(i)dius see W. Schulze, Lat. Eigennam., p. 251 and Solin and Salomies, Repertorium, p. 183; cf. also the cognomen Τειδια in Sardis VII 1, no. 141.
2–3 Herrmann considers that C. Teidius C. f. Veturia and P. Bruttius P. f. Sabatina Optatus (the latter mentioned Sardis VII 1, no. 105) may have been Romans (or Italici) resident at Sardis as negotiatores (see his article Arkeoloji Dergisi 4 [1996], pp. 184–87 [= Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 177–80] on no. 327); their tribes occur rarely in Asia.
4 ἐ(τῶν): E with a small horizontal stroke above it.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP