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    Inscribed Cinerarium Lid, Detail (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Inscribed Cinerarium Lid (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Inscribed Cinerarium Lid: Funerary Inscription for Apollonios, son of Harmodios

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 613
Date
1st century AD., Roman
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
NoEx69.045
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		Ἐπὶ Χρυσογόνου, μηνὸς Γορπιαίου θ´ ἀπιόντος·
		Ἀπολλώνιος Ἁρμοδίου μετήλλακχεν ἐτῶν
			νβ´.
Inscription Translation
“In the year when Chrysogonos held office, on the ninth day from the end of month Gorpiaios died Apollonios, son of Harmodios, aged fifty-two years.”
Inscription Comment
Findspot
Brought “from the mountain.”
Description

Cinerarium lid of marble.

Dimensions
H. 0.31, W. 0.43, Th. 0.04, H. of letters 0.008–0.011.
Comments

1 cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 121: ἐπὶ Χρυσογόν[ου τοῦ / Δ]ιοφάντου Ὀ̣[πι/νᾶ], with the date “about 50 B.C.” (qualified as hypothetical by Herrmann); see no. 609, 1 comm.

See Also
Bibliography
Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
Author
GP

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