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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 for a child of Pausanias
- Date
- (a) ca. 50 BC? (Herrmann). (b) ca. 30–15 BC? (Herrmann); late 1st century AD? (letter shape)., Hellenistic
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx69.044
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
(a) [Ἐ]πὶ Πολεμα̣[ίου Κερασει, μη(νὸς)] 2 [Π]α̣νήμου [ ] [ 2–3 ]Ν̣ΙΚΗ ̣[ ] (b) 4 [Ἐπὶ Σωκράτ]ου Παρδαλᾶ, [μηνὸς Παν]ήμου τρίτῃ· 6 [ . . . . . . . . . ] Παυσανί- [ου ἐτῶν .. ].
- Inscription Translation
- (a) “In the year when Polemaios [Kerasis] held office, [in the month] Panemos (died) [- - -]nike[- - -].” (b) “[In the year when Sokrates] Pardalas [held office], on the third day [of the month Pan]emos (died) [- - -, son (daughter)] of Pausanias, [aged x years].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Found in a field near Sardis.
- Description
Fragment of a roof-shaped cinerarium lid; the left and upper sides are preserved, while the right and lower sides are broken off. The cinerarium was used twice: both sloping sides are inscribed. The letter types of (a) and (b) are quite different; (b) has broader letters and stronger apices than (a).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.33, W. 0.22, Th. 0.08, H. of letters [a] 0.017–0.02, [b] 0.02.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and restorations. Summary of his his commentary:
1 [Ἐ]πὶ Πολεμα̣[ίου Κερασει]: see no. 600, 1 comm. Herrmann stresses that the stephanephoros Polemaios mentioned in Sardis VII 1, no. 109 cannot, according to the letter shape, be dated (following Buckler and Robinson) to the second century BC. He may belong to the early Imperial period and may have been a descendant of Polemaios Kerasis’s family.
4 [Ἐπὶ Σωκράτ]ου Παρδαλᾶ: see no. 440, 1–2 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP