Inscribed “Tombstone”: Funerary Inscription for Claudius Aigialos, by foster-father Tiberius Claudius Nikomachos Miletos

Date
Earlier Roman Imperial period?, Roman
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Uninv. M14 No.660
Material
Stone
Object Type
Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		Τι. Κλ. Νεικόμαχος Μίλητος
		     Κλ. Αἰγιαλῷ τῷ θρεπτῷ
		κατεσκεύασε τὸ μνημεῖον
	4	μνείας χάριν ζήσαντι ἔτ(η) ιγ´,
		[ἀποθ]ανόντι ἐπὶ στεφανηφόρου
		[          ]ΤΑΘΥΟΥ Λάκωνος, μη(νὸς) Δείου ι´.
Inscription Translation
“Ti(berius) Cl(audius) Nikomachos Miletos has built the tomb for his foster-son Cl(audius) Aigialos aged thirteen years, for the sake of memory; he died when [- - -] Lakon, held the office of stephanephoros, on the tenth of the month Dios.”
Inscription Comment
Site
Sardis
Findspot
Attributed to Sardis by L. Robert. Formerly in Rome, private collection; current whereabouts unknown.
Description

Tombstone (no further details available).

Comments

1 Robert has attributed the present inscription to Sardis referring to Sardis VII 1, no. 93a (Τι. Κλ. Μεί-

λητος Νε[ι]/κόμαχος / τοῖς κυρί/οις γονεῦσ[ι], see RA I [1936], pp. 234–38 [= Op. Min. III, pp. 1607–11]). “This Meiletos may have been a son or grandson of the one mentioned in no. 44.8” (Sardis VII 1, no. 93a; see no. 679, 1–2 comm.).

2 For another Αἰγιαλός in Lydia (Iulia Gordos), see G. Petzl, EpAnat 15 (1990), pp. 57–58, no. 13 (= SEG 40, 1044), l. 9 comm.

6 .…ΤΑΘΥΟΥ·ΛΑΚΩΝΟCΜΗΔΕΙΟΥΙ (a horizontal bar over the last letter), Amati; .…TA…OYA..KωNOCMHΛEIOΠ, Tonini; [τοῦ δεῖνα τ]οῦ Λάκωνος sive Ἄλκωνος (vel ἐπὶ - - [ί]ου Λάκωνος) μη(νὸς) Δείου ι´, Kaibel. Herrmann hesitatingly considers [Ὀκ]ταου‹ί›ου Λάκωνος.

See Also
Bibliography
From copies and publications of Amati (1825) and Tonini (1848): G. Kaibel, IG XIV 1760 (L. Robert, RA I [1936], p. 239 = Op. Min. III, p. 1612). Herrmann, ms.
Author
GP