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Inscribed Plaque, Photograph Scanned from Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum. (From Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, fig. 159.)
Inscribed Plaque: Funerary Inscription for the joint burial of bakers, wheat-sellers, and others
- Date
- Late Antiquity (4th century AD?, Malay)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 518
- Museum Inventory No.
- 518
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa 518
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Μνῆμα ἀρ- τοποιῶ(ν) κὲ σιλιναρ- 4 ‹ίω›ν κὲ τῶ- ν λοιπῶν.
- Inscription Translation
- “Tomb of the bakers, wheat-sellers and the others.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
Plaque of marble. Letters ε, c, ω.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.46, W. 0.29, Th. 0.06, H. of letters 0.02–0.05.
- Comments
“The inscription…indicates that ‘bakers, wheat-sellers and the others’ had owned a joint burial place” (Malay, with reference to Sardis VII 1, no. 166: ἀρτοπώλου πολειτικοῦ).
3–4 σιλιναρ‹ίω›ν: -ΡΩΙΝ, the stone; σιλινάριος is an abbreviated form of Latin siliginarius; see Malay’s commentary; and C. Brixhe, BE 1995, 506 (“pâtissier?”). MAMA III 700: σηληγνάριος, 727 σιλιγνάριος; Preisigke, Wörterbuch II, p. 459, has the forms σιλιγινάριος, σιλιγνάριος, σιλιγνιάριος (Herrmann).
5 οἱ λοιποί “were obviously the workers who served in various stages of preparing bread” (Malay).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 125, no. 431, pl. 59, fig. 159. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP