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Inscribed Tabula Ansata, Photograph Scanned from Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum. (From Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, fig. 153.)
Inscribed tabula ansata: Funerary inscription by Philon, son of Apollonios, for Demetrios, his son, himself, and his foster children
- Date
- Roman Imperial period (Malay)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 504
- Museum Inventory No.
- 504
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 504
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Φ]ίλων Ἀπολλωνίου Δημητρίῳ τῷ υἱῷ καὶ αὑτῷ ἐποίησεν τὸ μνη- 4 μῖον καὶ τοῖ‹ς› θρέμασιν Εὐανγέλῳ καὶ Νίκωνι, leaf leaf Ὀνησίμῳ, Τελεσφόρῳ, Ἐλπιδηφόρῳ· καὶ μηδέ- 8 να ἐξὸν εἶναι τεθῆναι χωρὶς ὧν προγέγραφα. τ̣ὶς βιάσεται, ἰς Καίσαρα (δηνάρια) ̗α θ(ήσει?).
- Inscription Translation
- “Philon, son of Apollonios, built the tomb for Demetrios, his son, and for himself and for his foster-children Euangelos and Nikon, Onesimos, Telesphoros, (and) Elpidephoros. And nobody shall have the permission to be buried (here) except for those whom I have aforementioned. Whosoever forces (burial, has to pay) 1,000 denarii to the Emperor’s treasure.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
Roughly stylized tabula ansata of marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.52, W. 0.54, Th. 0.16, H. of letters 0.025.
- Comments
4 ΤΟΙΘΡΕΜΑΣΙΝ: read τοῖς θρέμμασιν; for the omission of Σ before dental, see IGSK 23 (Smyrna), no. 236, 10 comm.; TAM V 3, 1628, 3 comm.; and Gignac, Grammar I, pp. 124–25.
7 Dot: ΡΩ·ΚΑΙ
10 τ̣ὶς βιάσεται: equivalent to ὅστις βιάσεται; see Petzl, ZPE 46 (1982), p. 28, on SEG 31, 1003; cf. Strubbe, ΑΡΑΙ, nos. 57, 239.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 122, no. 423, pl. 57, fig. 153.
- Author
- GP