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Inscribed Pillar-Shaped Stele. (From Malay, Inscriptions in the Manisa Museum, fig. 158.)
Inscribed Pillar-shaped Stele: Funerary Inscription for Hegemonios, a mason (sculptor?)
- Date
- Late Antiquity (4th century AD?, Malay)., Roman
- Museum
- Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum
- Museum Inventory No.
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- Manisa (M14 No. 712)
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Stele, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἡγε- μονεί- ου 4 λιθο- ξόου.
- Inscription Translation
- “(Tomb) of the mason (sculptor?) Hegemonios.”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Description
Pillar-shaped, roughly wrought stele. Some traces of an earlier inscription are visible.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.80, W. 0.20, Th. 0.07, H. of letters 0.02–0.06.
- Comments
4–5 For the λιθοξόοι Malay refers, among others, to L. Robert, L. Robert, Hellenica XI–XII, pp. 30–39; J. and L. Robert, BE 1981, 570; SEG 30, 1397; Herrmann adds D. Feissel, BE 1991, 700.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 124, no. 430, pl. 59, fig. 158. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP