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    Inscribed Cinerarium with Roof-Shaped Lid, Side View (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
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    Inscribed Cinerarium with Roof-Shaped Lid, Overview (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)

Inscribed Cinerarium with roof-shaped lid: Latin Funerary Inscription for Caius Octavius Alexander

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 630
Date
Roman Imperial period (Malay)., Roman
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, inv. no. 5002 [SKM]
Museum Inventory No.
inv. no. 5002 [SKM]
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
NoEx75.009
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Latin
Inscription Text
		C. Octavius Alex-
			ander.
Inscription Translation
Inscription Comment
Site
Sardis
Findspot
Sart Mahmut.
Description

Cinerarium of marble with a roof-shaped lid. The inscription is on the chest.

Dimensions
H. 0.30, W. 0.41, Th. 0.39, H. of letters l. 1 0.035; l. 2 0.005.
Comments

1 Dots between C and O; S and A.

P. Thonemann, Philia 3 (2017), pp. 46–48, deals with Octavii in Lydia and western Asia Minor; the present inscription can be added to his note 27 (p. 47).

See Also
Bibliography
Malay, Manisa Museum, pp. 135–36, no. 470, pl. 70, fig. 184.
Author
GP

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