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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid: Funerary Inscription for Theophila, daughter of Apollodotos
- Date
- Probably second half of the 1st century BC or early Imperial period (Herrmann)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN60.018
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ Χάρμου τὸ γ´, μη(νὸς) Ἀπελ- λαίου ια´· Θεοφίλα Ἀπ[ολ]- λοδότου ἐτῶν μ´.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Charmos held office (of a stephanephoros) for the third time, on the eleventh day of the month Apellaios, (died) Theophila, daughter of Apollodotos, aged forty years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- Findspot
- Pactolus North, reused in a cist grave. Expedition compound.
- Description
Cinerarium lid of gray marble, broken on the lower right side.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.38, W. 0.49, Th. 0.06, H. of letters 0.02.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and restorations.
1 See Sardis VII 1, no. 105: Ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Χάρμου τὸ γ´; here nos. 583–585. Charmos seems to belong to the later phase of dating after the stephanephoros (see no. 593, 1–2 comm.). For another Sardian bearing that name: CIL XVI 7, extr., tab. II, l. 19 (cf. Dessau, ILS 1988), C. Iulius Charmus Sardian(us), a military diploma from 68 AD.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP