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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment: Funerary Inscription for Menogenes, son of [- -] Kerasis
- Date
- Unknown., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx95.002
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπὶ ἱερέως Ἑ]ρμίππου τοῦ [ . . . . . . . . ]ου τὸ β´, μηνὸς [ . . . . . . ο]υ̣ β´· Μηνογένης 4 [ . . . . . . . ]ίου Κερασει [? ἔτους ἑνὸ]ς̣ καὶ μηνῶν τρειῶν.
- Inscription Translation
- “[In the year when the priest] Hermippos, son of [- - -], held office for the second time, on the second day of the month [- - -], (died) Menogenes, son of [- - -] Kerasei [aged one year?] and three months.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- From a field in the vicinity of Sardis.
- Description
Right half of a cinerarium lid of coarse-grained white marble. The inscription follows guidelines.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.36, W. 0.31, Th. 0.06, H. of letters ca. 0.015.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and restorations.
1 [Ἐπὶ ἱερέως]: Herrmann thinks that as restorations [Ἐπὶ Ἑ]ρμίππου is too short, and [Ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου Ἑ]ρμίππου is too long.
1–2 [Ἑ]ρμίππου τοῦ [ -]ου: Perhaps [Ἑ]ρμίππου τοῦ [Ἑρμίππ]ου (the restoration being a bit short for the space available). Herrmann refers to Ἕρμιππος Ἑρμίππου (Sardis VII 1, no. 5, 12 [second–first century BC]); and to another Ἕρμιππος Ἑρμίππου—a descendant of the preceding? (Buckler and Robinson)—who is mentioned, during the reign of Caligula, as a representative of Sardis in I.Didyma, no. 148, 20 (cf. L. Robert, Hellenica VII, pp. 211–26). Herrmann attributes little probability to the assumption of identity of the present Hermippos with the eponym Ἕρμιππος Λαβιηνός of Sardis VII 1, no. 120.
4 Κερασει: see no. 600, 1. Herrmann does not exclude the restoration [Πολεμα]ίου Κερασει.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP