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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 Potamon, a sculptor
- Date
- 1st century BC–1st century AD., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN82.031
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[ ] Ποτάμωνος [ ἀγαλματ]ογλύφος [ ] vacat 4 [ δ]ωδέκατον.
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] Potamon [- - -] sculptor [- - -] twelfth [- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- MMS
- Trench
- MMS-II 82.1
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E137.88 / S74.56 *104.28
- Findspot
- MMS-II, reused in the northeast doorway of late Roman house.
- Description
Fragment of a cinerarium lid of grayish-white marble; the left part is broken off.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.34, W. 0.25, Th. 0.08, H. of letters ca. 0.015.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and restorations.
2 As epigraphical testimonies for the term ἀγαλματογλύφος, Herrmann refers, e.g., to SEG 40, 943 and 944 (Aphrodisias), and SEG 32, 1311 (Ikonion; cf. SEG 30, 1476).
[δακτυλοκοιλ]ογλύφος (cf. TAM V 3, 1901, 4) or [δακτυλι]ογλύφος, “engraver of gems,” would also be possible restorations (Petzl).
3 Between ll. 2 and 4 there is room for another line, which is empty in the preserved portion; it may have been inscribed in the lost one.
4 The context to which “twelfth” belonged is unclear.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP