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Inscribed Cinerarium with Roof-Shaped Lid (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Cinerarium with Roof-Shaped Lid, Overview (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium with roof-shaped lid: Funerary Inscription for Rhome, daughter of Asklepiades
- Date
- Between 129 and 27 BC (Malay; questioned by Herrmann)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, inv. no. 5001
- Museum Inventory No.
- inv. no. 5001
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx75.007
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ Ἡγησάνδρου τὸ β´, Ὑπερβερ- {βερβερβερ}εταίου ε´ ἀπιόντος· Ῥώμη Ἀσκληπιάδου ἐτῶν ο´.- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Hegesandros held office for the second time, on the fifth day from the end of the month Hyperberetaios, (died) Rhome, daughter of Asklepiades, aged seventy years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sart Mahmut
- Description
Cinerarium of marble with a roof-shaped lid. The inscription is written on the lid.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.27, W. 0.37, Th. 0.48, H. of letters 0.017.
- Comments
1–2 The spelling of the month’s name has many variants (see, e.g., TAM V 3, p. 329, s.v.); but this cannot have been a reason for the nonsensical repetition of the syllable BEP, for which one may compare W. Judeich in Altertümer von Hierapolis (JDAI 4 Suppl. [1898], pp. 67–202), pp. 172–73, no. 339, 6: ζῶντος{ΤΟΣΤΟΣ} τοῦ Ἀπολλιναρίου.
3 For the personal name Ῥώμη, Malay refers to H. Solin, ZPE 39 (1980), pp. 249–54; see also K. Rigsby, ZPE 102 (1994), p. 192 (Herrmann).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 131, no. 450, pl. 62, fig. 168 (Herrmann, ms.).
- Author
- GP