Inscribed Cinerary Vase: Funerary Inscription for Moschion, daughter of Pantainetos, wife of Menophantos
- Date
- Probably between 129 and 27 BC., Hellenistic
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6505
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6505
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 6505
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπὶ - - - - - ] ΡΟΥ[ . . ]ΙΙ[ . ]Ο[ . . . ]ΧΕ[ ] Κ[ . . . . . . ]C τὸ β´, μ[η](νὸς) Ὀλῴου 4 Μόσχιον Πανταινέ- του, γυνὴ δὲ Μηνο- φάντου, ἐτῶν ιζ´.
- Inscription Translation
- “[In the year when the priest? - - - held office] for the second time, in the month Oloos, (died) Moschion, daughter of Pantainetos, wife of Menophantos, aged seventeen years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- From a Roman tomb near Sardis, the same place as no.
594 .
- Description
Cinerary vase; the inscription is in ink.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.29.
- Comments
2–3 Edd. prr. consider the following restoration: [Ἐπὶ ἱερέως name]/ΡΟΥ[- - τ]ο[ῦ Πο]λ̣ε[μαίου] / Κ[ερασέω]ς τὸ β´; cf. no. 600.
3 τό: T with a small omicron on top. - μ[η](νὸς) Ὀλῴου: while edd. prr. assume a lost small H on top of the M, H. W. Pleket (SEG) proposes μ(ηνὸς) Ὀλώου. For the name of the month cf. nos. 308, 7 and 594.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 130, no. 446 (no text). H. Dedeoğlu and H. Malay, Arkeoloji Dergisi 1 (1991 = Erol Atalay Memorial), p. 118, no. 7, fig. 7 (SEG 41, 1028).
- Author
- GP