Inscribed Roof-Shaped Cinerarium Lid: Funerary Inscription for Apollonios, son of Alexandros
- Date
- Before 9 BC? (Herrmann, but see below l. 1 comm.)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6500
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6500
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 6500
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ Μόχλωνος, μηνὸς Δίου ιγ´· Ἀπολ‹λ›ώνιος Ἀλεξάνδρου ἐτῶν vvv Β̣ΕΑΥ̣[ . . . . . ]ΚΙΤ
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Mochlon held office, on the thirteenth day of the month Dios, (died) Apollonios, son of Alexandros, aged - - -.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- From a Roman tomb near Sardis, the same place as no.
594 .
- Description
Roof-shaped cinerarium lid of marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.07, W. 0.47, Th. 0.37, H. of letters 0.02.
- Comments
1 Μόχλων: “est l’homme au verrou, μόχλος,” L. Robert, Et. épig. philol., pp. 153–56, who deals with the following second names borne by Sardians: the Sardian orator Διόδωρος Ζωνᾶς, “un surnom ayant rapport à sa ceinture” (Strabo 13, 4, 9 [p. 628]); Βόρων (Sardis VII 1, no. 5, 13): “c’est un surnom formé sur βορός, [“gluttonous,” LSJ s.v. (A)], en -ων comme il est normal”; Κυαμᾶς (Sardis VII 1, no. 5, 6): “c’est ‘l’homme à la fève’ ou ‘aux fèves’”; Κόντος (Sardis VII 1, no. 5, 7), from κοντός, “short”; Παταγᾶς (Sardis VII 1, no. 8, 53), “formé sur πάταγος, ‘bruit.’”
After the calendar reform of 9 BC the month Δῖος was replaced by Καῖσαρ, but it continued to be used also later; see P. Thonemann, ZPE 196 (2015), p. 133; cf., e.g., nos. 461, 463, and 666.
2 Ἀπολ‹λ›ώνιος: -ΛΑΩΝΙΟC, the stone; the mason had corrected the lunate sigma from an O (H. W. Pleket, SEG). - On the probable relationship with the deceased person of no. 596, see the commentary there on ll. 2–4; see also no. 594, 3 comm.
3 The letters after ἐτῶν (here given after my reading from the photograph) are unclear. K EXAI vac. KT instead of intended κε´· χαῖρε, edd. prr.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 130, no. 442 (no text). - H. Dedeoğlu and H. Malay, Arkeoloji Dergisi 1 (1991 = Erol Atalay Memorial), p. 115, no. 3, pl. XXVIII, fig. 3 (SEG 41, 1024; Herrmann, ms.).
- Author
- GP