Inscribed Cinerarium with Roof-shaped lid: Funerary Inscription for Marcus Vigellius Asiatikos, son of Demetrios and Secunda

Date
1st century BC–1st century AD (letter shape)? “The nomenclature points to the Roman period: second to first century B.C.?,” Sherk; “before 129 B.C.,” Malay., Hellenistic or Roman
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 36
Museum Inventory No.
36
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Manisa 36
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		[Ἐπ]ὶ στεφανηφόρου Χηνᾶ,
		μη(νὸς) Ὑπερβερεταίου ιδ´·
		Μᾶρκος Οὐιγέλλιος
	4	Ἀσιατικὸς Δημητρίου
		καὶ Σεκούνδας.
Inscription Translation
“In the year when the stephanephoros Chenas held office, on the fourteenth day of the month Hyperberetaios, (died) Marcus Vigellius Asiatikos, son of Demetrios and Secunda.”
Inscription Comment
Findspot
Attributed to Sardis by the edd. prr. Manisa Museum (inv. no. 36).
Description

Cinerarium of marble with a roof-shaped lid. The inscription is written on the chest; “sur le rebord, un alpha” (Robert).

Dimensions
H. [without the chest’s feet] 0.22 + lid, 0.08, W. 0.41, Th. 0.34, H. of letters 0.015–0.02.
Comments

1 For the rare name Chenas (“il est…tiré du nom de l’oie”), J. and L. Robert quote another example published in F. Preisigke, SB I 5377.

3–4 For the Vigellii in Sardis and neighboring Lydia, see no. 629, 3 comm.

5 Σεκούνδας (genitive) instead of -ης: The transliterated Latin name Secunda does not follow here the first declension of nouns with “alpha impurum”; cf. no. 672, 6 comm.

See Also
Bibliography
J. and L. Robert, Hellenica VI, p. 114, no. 46, pl. xxii, 3 (R. K. Sherk, ZPE 93 [1992], p. 244; Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 129 no. 439 [no text]). Herrmann, ms.
Author
GP