Inscribed Cinerary Vase: Funerary Inscription for Moschion, daughter of [- - -]ikles, wife of Menophilos
- Date
- Probably between 129 and 27 BC., Hellenistic
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6499
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6499
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 6499
- Material
- Ceramic
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Μόσχιον [ . . . ]ικλήους, [γυν]ὴ δὲ Μ[η]νο[φ]ίλο[υ] 4 [ . . . . ]Λ̣ΙC̣[ . . . . . ]ΟC̣ vac.
- Inscription Translation
- “Moschion, daughter of [- - -]ikles, wife of Menophilos [- - -].”
- 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. 0.34.
- Comments
4 Perhaps Σ[υλληΐδ]ος (edd. prr.); see no. 600, 4 comm. - H. Malay and M. Ricl, “A Roman Senator…” (in Vir doctus anatolicus. Studies in memory of Sencer Şahin, ed. Burak Takmer, Ebru N. Akdoğu Arca, and Nuray Gökalp Özdil [2016], pp. 611–16), p. 614 n. 22, consider the possibility of restoring the genitive of the phyle-name Ἡφαιστιάς.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 130, no. 447 (no text). - H. Dedeoğlu and H. Malay, Arkeoloji Dergisi 1 (1991 = Erol Atalay Memorial), p. 119, no. 8, fig. 8 (SEG 41, 1029).
- Author
- GP