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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 [- -]ntos, son of Atheno[- - -]

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 604

Date

Between 129 and 9 BC., Hellenistic

Sardis or Museum Inv. No.

IN63.076

Material

Marble, Stone

Object Type

Cinerarium Lid, Inscription

Inscription Type

Funerary Inscription

Inscription language

Greek

Inscription Text

		[Ἐπὶ Ἀσκλ]η̣πιάδου
		[τοῦ Δεσ]κύλου, μη-
		[νὸς Ἀρτ]εμισίου
	4	[. .  ἀπιόν]τος  vac.
		[ . . . . .  .]ντος Ἀθηνο-
		[-     -     -     -     -     -]

Inscription Translation

“[In the year when Askl]epiades, [son of Des]kylos, [held office, on the xth day] from the end of the month Artemisios, (died) [- -]ntos, son of Atheno[- - - -].”

Inscription Comment

Site

Sardis

Sector

Findspot

Pactolus North, in a wall north of Church E.

Description

Fragment of a cinerarium lid of bluish-white marble; broken on the left and right sides.

Dimensions

H. 0.35, W. 0.28, Th. 0.03–0.07, H. of letters 0.01–0.015.

Comments

Herrmann’s text and restorations.

1–2 The name of the eponymous person is completely preserved in no. 603, 1; see the commentary there.

5 [Διόφα]ντος or [Μηνόφα]ντος?, Herrmann.

See Also

Bibliography

Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.

Author

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