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Inscribed Stele, Photograph Scanned from Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum. (From Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, fig. 155.)
Inscribed Stele: Funerary Inscriptions for Diodoros and Euodia, by parents Diodoros and Meltine
- Date
- Roman Imperial period (Malay)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 6584
- Museum Inventory No.
- 6584
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 6584
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Διόδωρος καὶ Μελτί- νη Διοδώρῳ τῷ ἰδίῳ τέκνῳ μνείας χά‹ρι›ν 4 καὶ Εὐο- ἐτ(ῶν) κα´ leaf δίᾳ τῇ θυγατρί.
- Inscription Translation
- “Diodoros and Meltine (have built this tomb) for their own child Diodoros, aged twenty-one years, for the sake of memory” - [later addition:] “and for Euodia, their daughter.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Findspot
- From the area of Sardis.
- Description
“Marble stele with triangular pediment and tenon. The top acroterion is missing. Above the inscription is a wreath-motif” (Malay).
- Dimensions
- H. 0.98, W. 0.52, Th. 0.08, H. of letters 0.02–0.03.
- Comments
1–2 Διόδωρος καὶ Μελτίνη (N seems to be corrected from Δ): the same couple is mentioned in no. 663 where they bestow, together with the father’s brother Iulianos, last honors to their daughter Meltines, who died at the age of three years.
3 χά‹ρι›ν: XAITN, the stone.
4–5 The bold letters are a later addition.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 123, no. 425, pl., 58, fig. 155.
- Author
- GP