Inscribed Roof-Shaped Cinerarium Lid: Funerary Inscription for Apollonios Skordeis, son of Artemidoros
- Date
- First half of the 1st century AD (Herrmann)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 440
- Museum Inventory No.
- 440
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 440
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Μηνογένου τοῦ Δημη- τρίου νομοθέτου, μηνὸς Ξανδικοῦ η´· Ἀπολλώνιος Ἀρτεμιδώρου Σκορδεις 4 ἐτῶν νδ´.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when the stephanephoros Menogenes, son of the nomothetes Demetrios, held office, on the eighth day of the month Xandikos, (died) Apollonios Skordeis, son of Artemidoros, aged fifty-four years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
Roof-shaped cinerarium lid of marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.08, W. 0.46, Th. 0.37, H. of letters 0.01–0.015.
- Comments
1–2 Herrmann has pointed out that Menogenes (there in the form Tiberius Iulius Menogenes; he had received the Roman citizenship under Tiberius) and his father Demetrios (there it is clear that the qualification νομοθέτης belongs to him) occur in I.Didyma, no. 148, 6–8. Herrmann deals with other testimonies for members of the prominent Sardian family to which they belonged (inter alia the legend of a coin Δημήτριος Μηνογέν[ους], see F. Imhoof-Blumer, SNR 14 [1908], p. 18 = id., Zur griech. u. röm. Münzkunde, 2. Abt., p. 130, ‘Sardeis,’ no. 2), and assumes that in Didyma, Ti. Iulius Menogenes may have officiated in a provinicial function. He also deals with the still-unclear function of nomothetai of the Imperial period.
The inscription shows that it was not always the priest of Roma who was used as a reference point for dating after the foundation of the province of Asia (Herrmann).
3 Σκορδεις: Herrmann (p. 58 n. 16 [= Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 624–25]) gives references for the group of personal names belonging to the word σκόρ(ο)δον, “garlic.”
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 129, no. 438, pl. 61, fig. 166 (P. Herrmann, EpAnat 27 [1996], pp. 57–61 = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 623–28 [AE 1996, 1451]).
- Author
- GP