Inscribed Block: Funerary Inscription for Apollophanes, son of Apollophanes, of the tribe Asias, and his wife Antonia, daughter of Diognetos
- Date
- 2nd century AD., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 509
- Museum Inventory No.
- 509
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 509
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἀπολλοφάνης Ἀπολλοφάνους Ἀσιάδος τὸ μνημῖον κατεσκεύ- ασεν ζῶν αὐτῷ καὶ Ἀντωνίᾳ Δι- 4 ογνήτου τῇ γεναμένῃ γυναι- κὶ αὐτοῦ μόνῃ, ζησάσῃ κοσμί- ως καὶ φιλάνδρως ἔτη λα´, καὶ τοῖς λοιποῖς καθὼς ἐν 8 τῇ διαθήκῃ δηλοῦται. ταύ- της τῆς ἐπιγραφῆς ἀντί- γραφον ἀπετέθη ἰς τὸ ἀρχῖον.
- Inscription Translation
- “Apollophanes, son of Apollophanes, of (the phyle as built the tomb during his lifetime for himself and for his unique late wife Antonia, daughter of Diognetos, who lived decently and in love of her husband thirty-one years, and for the others according to what is made clear in the testament. A copy of this inscription has been deposited in the archive.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Çaltılı
- Findspot
- Found in 1956 in the fields northeast of the Acropolis, near the village of Çaltılı. Nos.
669 and670 were parts of the same funerary complex.
- Description
Block of white marble, perhaps a “fragment of a marble sarcophagus” (Malay). For a detailed description, see ed. pr. The inscription is written in a tabula ansata.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.44, W. 0.78, max. Th. 0.24, H. of letters 0.017.
- Comments
2 (φυλῆς) Ἀσιάδος: Herodotus IV 45 on the name “Asia”: the Lydians claim its origin: φάμενοι ἐπὶ Ἀσίεω τοῦ Κότυος τοῦ Μάνεω κεκλῆσθαι τὴν Ἀσίην…· ἀπ᾿ ὅτευ καὶ τὴν ἐν Σάρδισι φυλὴν κεκλῆσθαι Ἀσιάδα. See Herrmann’s detailed commentary in the ed. pr. and Chiron 23 (1993), p. 240; in his manuscript he adds references to N. F. Jones, Public Organization in Ancient Greece (1987), pp. 355–56; and P. Briant, La Lettre de Pallas 2 (1995), n. 1; cf. U. Kunnert, Bürger unter sich; Phylen in den Städten des kaiserzeitlichen Ostens (2012), pp. 125–27. - Ligature MNHM.
5–6 μόνος: “unique, supérieur à tous”: L. Robert, Hellenica XIII, p. 216 n. 4; κοσμίως: L. Robert, Hellenica XIII, ibid., p. 222. - φιλάνδρως: L. Robert, Hellenica XIII, pp. 35–36, 227; J. Nollé and F. Schindler, IGSK 37 (Selge), pp. 85–86, with n. 9.
Herrmann gives the inventory number as Manisa 1171.
Date: see no. 670 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- cf. Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 99, no. 311 (no text); P. Herrmann, Neue Inschriften zur historischen Landeskunde von Lydien…, Denkschriften 77, 1 (1959), pp. 7–8, no. 5 (= id., Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 13–15), pl. I 4 = id., Ausgew. Schriften, p. 31, fig. 5 (SEG 19, 714). Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP