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Inscribed Stele (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Overview, 3/4 view (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Detail of Pediment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Detail of Relief (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Stele: Funerary Inscription for Meltines, by parent Diodoros and Meltine and uncle Iulianos
- Date
- Roman period (SEG)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, inv. no. 5366
- Museum Inventory No.
- inv. no. 5366
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx76.009
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Διόδωρος κὲ Μελτίνη κὲ Ἰουλιανὸς ὁ πάτρως Μελτινῆδι τῷ ἰδίῳ τέκν- 4 ῳ μνείας χάριν ἐτῶν γ´.
- Inscription Translation
- “Diodoros and Meltine and Iulianos, the uncle, (put up the funerary stele) for their own child Meltines, aged three years, for the sake of memory.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Bin Tepe
- Findspot
- Ca. 3 km north of Kesterli Köyü.
- Description
Stele of marble with a triangular pediment and acroteria; “under the pediment and above the inscription representation of a mirror, a bird, framed within an olive wreath and a comb” (SEG).
- Dimensions
- H. 1.13, max. W. 0.56.
- Comments
The same couple is mentioned in no. 662 where they bestow last honors to their son Diodoros and a daughter named Euodia.
3 For female names ending in -ης (genitive -ηδος) instead of -η (cf. no. 685, 4), and in ας (genitive αδος) instead of -α, see no. 673, 1 comm.; and the references in SEG and IGSK 23 (Smyrna), no. 397, 1. See also Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 95, no. 279, 5–6 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- The stele is mentioned by C. H. Greenewalt, jr., BASOR 229 (1978), p. 70, with photograph; the inscription is read from the photo in SEG 28, 930; Malay, Manisa Museum, 124, no. 428 (no text).
- Author
- GP