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Inscribed Roof-shaped Cinerarium Lid, Detail (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Roof-shaped Cinerarium Lid (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Roof-shaped Cinerarium Lid: Funerary Inscription for Sokrates, son of Hikesios
- Date
- “Some year in the decade between Philippi and Actium,” i.e., 42–31 BC (Sardis VII 1, no. 129 comm.)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx69.048
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ Μάρκου Ἀντωνίου τοῦ αὐτοκράτορος, v μη(νὸς) v Δείου· Σωκράτης Ἱκεσίου ἐτῶν 4 vac. λθ´. vac.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Marcus Antonius, the Imperator, officiated (as priest of Roma), in the month Dios, (died) Sokrates, son of Hikesios, aged thirty-nine years.”
- Inscription Comment
- Findspot
- Brought “from the mountain.”
- Description
Roof-shaped cinerarium lid of marble; the inscription follows guidelines.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.35, W. 0.43, Th. 0.06, H. of letters 0.015.
- Comments
1–2 Herrmann refers to Sardis VII 1, no. 129 (see there for further details), which had been correctly attributed by the editors to the eponymy of the triumvir. Marcus Antonius had, honoris causa, taken over the function of the priest of Roma. The “honour was paid…perhaps in 41 B.C.…or in 33 B.C.” For kings and emperors being honorary functionaries, Herrmann refers to L. Robert, Et. épig. philol., pp. 142–50; id., RPhil 1959, pp. 212–13 (= Op. Min. V, p. 242); RPhil 1974, p. 212, with n. 195 (= Op. Min. V, p. 299); and H. Engelmann, ZPE 120 (1998), p. 69; cf. no. 582, 1–2 comm.; he underlines that M. Antonius fits that tradition.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- P. Herrmann, “Sardeis zur Zeit der iulisch-claudischen Kaiser” (in Forschungen in Lydien, ed. E. Schwertheim [1995 = AMS 17], pp. 21–36 = Herrmann, Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 147–68), p. 23 (Ausgew. Schriften, pp. 149–50), with photograph pl. 1, 2 (Ausgew. Schriften, p. 165, fig. 2) (SEG 45, 1651; AE 1995, 1456). Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP