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Inscribed Block with Tabula Ansata (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block with tabula ansata: Funerary Inscription for Aurelius Tatianos Hypsikles, councilor and strategos, for himself and his family
- Date
- 3rd century AD (letter shape and orthography [Herrmann])., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN76.011
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Αὐρ. Τατιανοῦ Ὑ- ψικλέους Σ- αρδιανοῦ β- 4 ουλευτοῦ κ- αὶ στρατηγοῦ· κα- τεσκεύασεν αὐτ- ῷ καὶ γυνεκὶ καὶ 8 τέκνυς καὶ ἐγό- νυς· εἴ τ‹ι›ς δὲ ἕτερ- ον θήσι, δώσι τ- ῷ εἱερῷ ταμ‹ί›ῳ 12 (δηνάρια) ̗ε.
- Inscription Translation
- “(Tomb) of Aur(elius) Tatianos Hypsikles, councilor of Sardis and strategos. He has built it for himself and for his wife and for (their) children and descendants. If anybody will bury somebody else, he will pay to the imperial treasury 5,000 denarii.”
- Inscription Comment
- Findspot
- Found in a field on the northern side of the old İzmir-Ankara highway, west of the Pactolus River.
- Description
Block of marble with a tabula ansata. The inscription was written, running over the molding, when the tabula ansata (turned 90 degrees) was reused.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.66, W. 0.42–0.43, Th. 0.09–0.12, H. of letters 0.03–0.038.
- Comments
1–2 The English translation corresponds to that of Herrmann: “(Grab) des Aur(elius) Tatianos Hypsikles, Ratsherren von Sardeis…” Hypsikles may perhaps have been the name of the father of Aurelius Tatianos.
2–4 Σαρδιανὸς βουλευτής: see no. 488, 4–5 comm.
9 τ‹ι›ς: TC, the stone.
11 ταμ‹ί›ῳ: ΤΑΜΩ, the stone.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP