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(Telif hakkı Sart Amerikan Hafriyat Heyeti / Harvard Üniversitesi)
- Dönem
- 1st century AD?, Roma
- Sardeis veya Müze Env. No.
- NoEx95.005
- Malzeme
- Mermer, Taş
- Eserin Türü
- Yazıt
- Yazıt Turu
- Ölüyle ilgili Yazıt
- Yazıt Dili
- Latince
- Yazıt Metni
Dis Manibus Rubelliae Heliones
- Yazıt Çevirisi
- “To the Divine Shades of Rubellia Helione.”
- Yazıt Yorumu
- Bulunduğu Yeri
- Found in a field between Sart and Mersindere near the necropolis hill, south of the İzmir-Ankara highway.
- Tanım
Block of white marble, the upper and lower edges with moldings; except for damage at the upper right side, perfectly preserved. On the upper surface there are a circular hole and six clamp-holes, probably for the fixation of a statue.
- Boyutlar
- Block: H. 1.23, W. ca. 0.83, Th. 0.83, H. of letters 0.055–0.07; hole: Diam. 0.35, Depth: ca. 0.18.
- Yorum
Summary of Herrmann’s commentary:
It is probable that the conspicuous funerary monument belonged to a well-to-do lady. It seems to have originally been decorated by a statue and erected in the necropolis (remains of limestone sarcophagi in the neighborhood). Her cognomen Helione, presumably derived from Ἥλιος, points to her Greek origin; an inscription from Rome mentions Κλ(αυδία) Ἡλιόνη (IGUR II, 2, 1023; see L. Moretti’s commentary on the name; and Solin, Personennam. Rom I, pp. 596 and 401).
Rubellia may have been a freedwoman. Tacitus, ann. 14, 22, 3 mentions that (Sergius?) Rubellius Plautus (“among the illustrious victims of the Neronian tyranny,” R. Syme, Roman Papers IV [1934]) possessed inherited estates (avitos agros) in Asia. Following Nero’s order, he moved there, together with his wife Antistia Pollitta, in 60 AD. Nero had him murdered in 62 AD (ann. 14, 57–59). Were Rubellius’s estates located near Sardis, and was Rubellia Helione a freedwoman of that family?
- Ayrıca bakınız
- Kaynakça
- Unpublished (mentioned by C. H. Greenewalt, jr., in KST 18, 1 [1998], p. 514); Herrmann, ms.
- Yazar
- GP