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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragments (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragments: Funerary Inscription for Tiberius Claudius Theophilos Poplas, son of Menodotos, former priest of Zeus Polieus
- Date
- After the middle of the 1st century AD (the names, Herrmann)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN60.026
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπὶ στε]φανηφόρου Κλαυδίου Ἰουλια- [ν]οῦ, μη(νὸς) Πανήμου δεκάτῃ ἑσταμένῃ· [Τ]ιβέριος Κλαύδιος Μηνοδότου υἱὸς 4 [Κ]υ̣ρίνα Θεόφιλος Ποπλᾶς ἱερατεύσας [τ]οῦ Πολιέως Διός, ἔζησεν ἔτ̣[η ..].- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when the stephanephoros Claudius Iulianus held office, on the tenth day of the beginning month Panemos, (died) Tiberius Claudius Theophilos Poplas, son of Menodotos, of (the tribus) Quirina, former priest of Zeus Polieus, aged [- -] years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- Trench
- BE 60
- Locus
- B Marble Court
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E35 / N32 *98.00 - 97.50
- Findspot
- Bath-Gymnasium Complex, BE-S; BE-S gate to Marble Court; Marble Court, south niche in rubble.
- Description
Cinerarium lid of marble broken into four joining fragments; right and lower edges partly preserved, broken on the upper and left sides. Script with strong apices.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.27, W. 0.46, Th. 0.08, H. of letters 0.015.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text (ms.).
1–2 Herrmann assumes that the stephanephoros is identical with Tiberius Claudius Tiberii filius Quirina Iulianus mentioned in Sardis VII 1, no. 41*, an inscription that has been attributed to Philadelpheia (see Sardis VII 1 and the lemma of TAM V 3, 1448); there (in l. 6), his function as stephanephoros is mentioned. Herrmann is therefore in favor of its re-attribution to Sardis. See no. 384, 8 comm.
3–4 [Τ]ιβέριος Κλαύδιος Μηνοδότου υἱὸς [Κ]υ̣ρίνα Θεόφιλος Ποπλᾶς: he was obviously made a new citizen by the emperor Claudius and belonged to the latter’s tribus: cf. G. Forni in L’onomastique latine, ed. H. G. Pflaum and N. Duval (1977), p. 92. His second name, Ποπλᾶς, is derived from Πόπλιος (cf. L. Robert, CRAI 1968, pp. 569–73 = Op. Min. V, pp. 585–89).
4–5 For the cult of Zeus Polieus in Sardis, see nos. 349, 6; 350, 18; 384, 9; 441, 2, and the index of Sardis VII 1.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished; mentioned by P. Herrmann, EpAnat 27 (1996), p. 58 n. 15 = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, p. 624 (AE 1996, 1450). Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP