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Inscribed Cimerarium (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cimerarium: Funerary Inscription for Artemon, son of Sipylos
- Date
- 1st century BC–1st century AD? (letter shape)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx75.008
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἀρτέμων Σιπύλου ἐτῶν λ´.
- Inscription Translation
- “Artemon, son of Sipylos, aged thirty years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sart Mahmut
- Description
Cinerarium of marble. The inscription is on one of the sloping faces of the lid.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.29 at ridge, W. 0.41, Th. 0.36, H. of letters 0.015.
- Comments
1 For the personal name Σίπυλος, Malay refers to its attestation on a coin from Smyrna; see IGSK 24, 2, p. 397, Index s.v.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Manisa Museum (inv. no. 5000). - Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 138, no. 483, pl. 74, fig. 193.
- Author
- GP