Inscribed Cinerarium with Roof-shaped lid: Funerary Inscription for Marcus Vigellius Asiatikos, son of Demetrios and Secunda
- Date
- 1st century BC–1st century AD (letter shape)? “The nomenclature points to the Roman period: second to first century B.C.?,” Sherk; “before 129 B.C.,” Malay., Hellenistic or Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 36
- Museum Inventory No.
- 36
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 36
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπ]ὶ στεφανηφόρου Χηνᾶ, μη(νὸς) Ὑπερβερεταίου ιδ´· Μᾶρκος Οὐιγέλλιος 4 Ἀσιατικὸς Δημητρίου καὶ Σεκούνδας.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when the stephanephoros Chenas held office, on the fourteenth day of the month Hyperberetaios, (died) Marcus Vigellius Asiatikos, son of Demetrios and Secunda.”
- Inscription Comment
- Findspot
- Attributed to Sardis by the edd. prr. Manisa Museum (inv. no. 36).
- Description
Cinerarium of marble with a roof-shaped lid. The inscription is written on the chest; “sur le rebord, un alpha” (Robert).
- Dimensions
- H. [without the chest’s feet] 0.22 + lid, 0.08, W. 0.41, Th. 0.34, H. of letters 0.015–0.02.
- Comments
1 For the rare name Chenas (“il est…tiré du nom de l’oie”), J. and L. Robert quote another example published in F. Preisigke, SB I 5377.
3–4 For the Vigellii in Sardis and neighboring Lydia, see no. 629, 3 comm.
5 Σεκούνδας (genitive) instead of -ης: The transliterated Latin name Secunda does not follow here the first declension of nouns with “alpha impurum”; cf. no. 672, 6 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- J. and L. Robert, Hellenica VI, p. 114, no. 46, pl. xxii, 3 (R. K. Sherk, ZPE 93 [1992], p. 244; Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 129 no. 439 [no text]). Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP