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Inscribed Roof-Shaped Cinerarium Lid Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Roof-Shaped Cinerarium Lid Fragment: Funerary Inscription
- Date
- Unknown., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN63.062
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
(a) [Ἐπὶ σ]τεφα̣[νηφόρου - - ] 2 [ ]φου Τ[ ] [ ]ος Γ[ ] 4 [ ]Ρ̣Τ[ ] (b) [Ἐπὶ ? Σεκ]ούνδου̣ [ ] 6 [μηνὸς Π]ανήμο[υ ] [ ]ΝΗ[ ]
- Inscription Translation
- (a) “[In the year when] the stephanephoros [- - -] held office [- - -].” (b) “[In the year when Sec(?)]undus [held office - - - of the month] Panemos [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W232 / S345 *89.45
- Findspot
- Pactolus North.
- Description
Roof-shaped cinerarium lid of bluish marble; broken on all sides. The cinerarium was used twice: both sloping sides are inscribed.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.19, W. 0.16, Th. 0.05–0.07, H. of letters [a] 0.032, [b] 0.02.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and restorations.
2 Perhaps [Ῥού]φου, Herrmann.
5 [? Σεκ]ούνδου̣: For Sardis VII 1, no. 17, 22 (see no. 349, 12 comm.), Herrmann considers the restoration Φλ. Σεκ[οῦνδος]. - Here, [Ἰο(υ)κ]ούνδου would also be a possible restoration (Herrmann).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP