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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment: Bilingual (Latin-Greek) Funerary Inscription
- Date
- Unknown., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN66.040
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Latin
- Inscription Text
[ ]o Laelio P[ ] [ Se]rvilia P. f. uxor [ ] [ in i]gnem inlat[ ] 4 [ ] Οὐεττ̣[ ] - - - - - - - -
- Inscription Translation
- “[- - -] Laelius P[- - - Se]rvilia, daughter of Publius (Servilius), wife [- - -] brought into the fire [- - -] - Vett[- - -].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- B
- Trench
- Syn W 66
- Locus
- B BE-B
- B-Grid Coordinates
- E21 / N14.5 *97.50
- Findspot
- Bath-Gymnasium Complex.
- Description
Fragment of a cinerarium lid of white marble, broken on all sides. Bilingual Latin and Greek; in the Latin inscription, words are separated by triangular dots.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.25, W. 0.19, Th. 0.08, H. of letters ll. 1 and 4 0.025; ll. 2 and 3 0.017.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text and restorations.
The bilingual inscription TAM V 3, 1692 on a cinerarium from Philadelpheia concerns two different families; one cannot tell whether this was the case here too, or whether one family was concerned.
3 Apparently an allusion to the method of burial; Herrmann quotes Terentius, Andria 129 “in ignem impositast” (referring to TLL VII, col. 292, s.v. ignis: “in concremandis mortuis”).
4 Οὐεττ̣[ ]: Only a small trace of the horizontal stroke of the second T is visible. - There are many possibilities for restoration of a name containing the element Vett-. For Sardis, Herrmann points to Lucius Cornelius Vettenianus, Sardis VII 1, no. 75, who was equated by the editors with the asiarch and strategos of Sardis, Κορ. Οὐεττηνιανός (Campanile, Sacerdoti, p. 131, no. 150, early third century).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP