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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment: Funerary Inscription for Dio[- -], son of Dionmedes
- Date
- Unknown., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- OIN58.018
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπὶ ] . ̣ [- - , μη(νὸς) -ο]υ ζ´· Διο- [ Δι]ομήδους 4 [ ]ς ἐτῶν ξ̣´
- Inscription Translation
- “[In the year when - - - held office], on the seventh day [of the month - -]os (died) Dio[- - -], son of Diomedes [- - -], aged sixty years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- Discovered in 1958 in the ruins of the excavation house of H. C. Butler.
- Description
Fragment of a cinerarium lid; only a portion of the right side is preserved, elsewhere broken.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.18, W. 0.20, Th. 0.06, H. of letters ca. 0.015.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and restorations.
1 At the end of the line either an E or a squared lunate sigma.
2–3 Διο[μήδης Δι]ομήδους?, cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 114 (Δ[ιομήδης Δι]ομήδους).
4 Of the Ξ, only the remains of the upper and lower strokes are preserved.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP