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