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