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Inscribed Roof-Shaped Cinerarium Lid (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Roof-shaped Cinerarium Lid: Funerary Inscription for Delphis, daughter of Menodoros
- Date
- Before 9 BC?, Hellenistic or Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, inv. no. 4999
- Museum Inventory No.
- inv. no. 4999
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx75.006
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ Δαμᾶ, v μη(νὸς) Περειτίου v β´· Δελφὶς v Μηνοδώρου ἐτῶν v ξα´.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Damas held office, on the second day of the month Peritios, (died) Delphis, daughter of Menodoros, aged sixty-one years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Sart Mahmut.
- Description
Roof-shaped cinerarium lid of marble with acroteria.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.08, W. 0.47, Th. 0.38, H. of letters 0.015.
- Comments
As the chest no. 609 was found together with the present lid and both pieces “fit precisely” (Sardis excavation inscription register), they probably served for a double burial.
W. E. Mierse (in SPRT, pp. 125, 267 n. 35) mentions the proposal made by C. Foss of identifying the functionary Δαμᾶς, attested on a coin of Augustan time (RPC I 2987), with the present one.
Date: see on no. 609.
- See Also
- See also: M14, No. 609.
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 132, no. 452, pl. 63, fig. 170 (Herrmann, ms.).
- Author
- GP