Inscribed Cinerarium Lid: Latin Funerary Inscription for Cnaeus Caecilius, son of Cnaeus

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 631
Date
1st century BC?, Hellenistic
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Uninv. M14 No.631
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Latin
Inscription Text
		Cn(aeus) Caecilius, Cn(aei) f(ilius).
Inscription Translation
“Cnaeus Caecilius, son of Cnaeus.”
Inscription Comment
Site
Sardis
Findspot
Formerly in the Valparaiso University archives (Indiana, USA), where it came in 1899; after its publication the stone was returned to Turkey.
Description

Roof-shaped lid of a cinerary chest with the inscription on one of the sloping surfaces; the other one is partly broken. For a later inscription on the same stone see no. 672.

Dimensions
H. 0.35, W. 0.52, Th. 0.05, H. of letters 0.018.
Comments
See Also
Bibliography
P. Keen and G. Petzl, ZPE 191 (2014), p. 190, no. 2a, with photograph (SEG 64, 1192a).
Author
GP

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