Inscribed Cinerarium with roof-shaped lid: Funerary Inscription for Menodote, daughter of Artemidoros and Tatia, wife of Alexandros

Date
Between 129 and 27 BC., Hellenistic
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6502
Museum Inventory No.
6502
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Manisa 6502
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		Ἐπὶ ἱερέως τῆς Ῥώμης Ἀ[ρχε]λ[ά]-
		ου τοῦ Ἀρχελάου, μηνὸς Ὀλ̣ῴ̣-
		ου τριακάδι· Μηνοδότη
	4	Ἀρτεμιδώρου κ[αὶ] Τατίας, γυν̣[ὴ]
		δὲ Ἀλε‹ξ›άνδρου, ἐτῶν λ̣ζ´.
Inscription Translation
“In the year when the priest of Roma A[rche]l[a]os, son of Archelaos, held office, on the thirtieth day of the month Oloos, (died) Menodote, daughter of Artemidoros and Tatia, the wife of Alexandros, aged thirty-seven years.”
Inscription Comment
Findspot
From a Roman tomb near Sardis (see BASOR Suppl. 26 [1990], pp. 161–64, figs. 29–33).
Description

Cinerarium of marble with a roof-shaped lid. The inscription is written on the lid.

Dimensions
H. 0.34, W. 0.43, Th. 0.43, H. of letters 0.015.
Comments

1–2 Ἀ[ρχε]λ[ά]ου τοῦ Ἀρχελάου edd. prr.; they tentatively identify son or father Archelaos with the Archelaos (without father’s name) of Sardis VII 1, nos. 123 and 125, who held the office of priest of Roma at least four times. If the identification of the latter Archelaos with Ἀρχέλαος Θεοφίλου offered in Sardis VII 1 is correct (see here Index Personal Names s.v.), he could be identified with the father Archelaos of the present text. See also no. 616, 1 comm.

Ὀλῷος: see P. Herrmann, TAM V 1, 704 and nos. 308, 7 comm. and 622, 3 comm.

3 Menodote may have been the wife of Alexandros (no. 596) who was buried in the same tomb; Apollonios (no. 607) may have been their son (Herrmann).

5 Ἀλε‹ξ›άνδρου: ΑΛΕΑΝΔΡΟΥ, as it seems, from the photograph; Ἀλ‹ε›ξάνδρου, edd. prr.; Ἀλεξάνδρου, SEG.

See Also
Bibliography
Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 130, no. 440 [no text]). - H. Dedeoğlu and H. Malay, Arkeoloji Dergisi 1 (1991 = Erol Atalay Memorial), p. 114, no. 1, pl. XXVII, fig. 1 (SEG 41, 1022; AE 1992, 1601; Herrmann, ms.).
Author
GP