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Inscribed Roof-Shaped Cinerarium Lid Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Roof-Shaped Cinerarium Lid Fragment: Funerary Inscription for a woman
- Date
- 1st century BC–1st century AD?, Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx00.005
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπὶ - - -Ἀπολ]λ̣ωνίου, μη(νὸς) Ὑ- [περβερεταίου] τετρά‹δ›ι ἀπιό- [ντος - -]Λ̣ΖΟΙΣ, γυνὴ 4 [δὲ Εὐσέ]βους, ἐτῶν [ ] vac. λζ´. vac.
- Inscription Translation
- “[In the year when (the priest?) Apol]lonios [held office], on the fourth day from the end of the month Hy[perberetaios, (died) - - -, daughter of(?) - -]zois, wife of [Euse]bes, aged thirty-seven years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Reportedly from Sardis, “Biber Kayası.”
- Description
Damaged fragment from the right side of a roof-shaped cinerarium lid of marble. Irregular letters.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.09, W. 0.27, Th. 0.40, H. of letters 0.02–0.027.
- Comments
1 Perhaps [Ἐπὶ (ἱερέως) Ἀπολ]λ̣ωνίου or [- - δεῖνος τοῦ Ἀπολ]λ̣ωνίου. It is evident from the space of the lacuna that the inscription did not belong to the groups with the formula ἐπὶ ἱερέως τῆς Ῥώμης τοῦ δεῖνος or ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου τοῦ δεῖνος. - μη(νὸς): M with a dot in the upper middle representing the horizontal stroke of the H.
1–3 τετρά‹δ›ι: TETPAI, the stone. Cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 118 μηνὸς Ἀρτεμισίου τετράδι ἀπιόντος.
3 - - ]Λ̣ΖΟΙΣ is perhaps the end of the name of the deceased wife, without indication of her father’s (or mother’s) name but with following γυνὴ [δέ]; see no. 602, 2–3. Another (less probable) possibility would be to read the letters as belonging to the name of the deceased’s mother in genitive (perhaps Ζό[η]ς?).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished.
- Author
- GP