Inscribed Stele: Funerary Inscription for wife of Apollophanes, son of Apollophanes, of the tribe Asias
- Date
- 2nd century AD (Möbius)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 174
- Museum Inventory No.
- 174
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 174
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἀπολλοφάνης Ἀπολλοφάνους Ἀσιά- δος ἐτείμησεν.
- Inscription Translation
- “Apollophanes, son of Apollophanes, of (the phyle) Asias, has honored (his wife [shown in the relief]).”
- 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
Stele of marble with triangular pediment. In a rectangular recess above the inscription, a woman stands between a bird (eagle?), and a distaff and spindle.
- Dimensions
- H. 1.90, W. 0.56, Th. 0.16, H. of letters 0.03.
- Comments
See no. 669 comm.
Herrmann gives the inventory number as Manisa 1156.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- cf. Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 99, no. 310 (no text); P. Herrmann, Neue Inschriften zur historischen Landeskunde von Lydien…, Denkschriften 77, 1 (1959), p. 7 (= id., Ausgew. Schriften, p. 12), no. 4, pl. I 5 = id., Ausgew. Schriften, p. 32, fig. 6 (SEG 19, 713; Pfuhl and Möbius, Ostgr. Grabrel. I, no. 428, pl. 70).
- Author
- GP