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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment: Funerary Inscription: Funerary Inscription for Apphion, daughter of [- -]pides
- Date
- Unknown., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN62.028
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπὶ Ἀρ]χ̣ελάου, [μη(νὸς) . . . .ο]υ ζ´ [ἀπιόντο]ς· Ἄπφιον 4 [ 5–7 ]πίδου [ ] ἐ̣τῶν λα´.
- Inscription Translation
- “[In the year when] Archelaos [held office], on the seventh day [from the end of the month - -]os, (died) Apphion, the daughter of [- -]pides, aged thirty-one years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- PN
- Trench
- PN
- B-Grid Coordinates
- *90.00
- Findspot
- Pactolus North, off the northwestern corner of Church E.
- Description
Fragment of a cinerarium lid of white marble, right and lower sides complete, left and upper sides broken. The inscription stands between guidelines.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.21, W. 0.19, Th. 0.03–0.06, H. of letters 0.015–0.02.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and restorations. Herrmann notes that a reconstruction of longer lines would be possible.
1–2 Archelaos may be identical with the homonymous person mentioned in Sardis VII 1, nos. 123 and 125 (both inscriptions date from his fourth period of office); accordingly, Herrmann considers here [Ἐπὶ Ἀρ]-χ̣ελάου / [δ´, μη(νὸς), etc.]; Archelaos, son of Archelaos, is mentioned as eponymous priest of Roma in no. 594, 1–2; see the commentary).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP