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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid, Detail (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid: Funerary Inscription for Herakleides, son of Apollonios
- Date
- 1st century BC–1st century AD., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- NoEx69.049
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Ἐπὶ Διονυσίου, v μηνὸς Ἀπελλαίου ι´Α⟦Λ̣⟧ ἀπιόν(τος)· Ἡρακλεί- δην Ἀπολλωνίου.
- Inscription Translation
- “In the year when Dionysios held office, on the tenth day from the end of the month Apellaios. (Someone has honored with a burial) Herakleides, son of Apollonios.”
- Inscription Comment
- Findspot
- Brought “from the mountain.”
- Description
Cinerarium lid of marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.39, W. 0.47, Th. 0.10, H. of letters 0.01–0.013.
- Comments
1 cf. Sardis VII 1, no. 112: ἐπὶ ἱερέως τῆς Ῥώμης Διονυσίου τοῦ Ἀθηναίου, and “the stephanephoros and priest of Roma Dionysios, adopted son of Dionysios, biological son of Menogenes,” in no. 593.
2 ι´Α⟦Λ̣⟧ ἀπιόν(τος): my reading; above the first letter (an oversized I) after Ἀπελλαίου, an A is written, which partly reaches into the preceding line. The superscribed A is a frequent abbreviation for ἀπιόντος, so that Herrmann wrote ι´ ἀ(πιόντος?). Then follows a Λ, the right stroke of which has been deleted; its meaning is unclear. The following ΑΠΙΟΝ is, like in Sardis VII 1, no. 119, another abbreviated form of ἀπιόντος (Herrmann’s interpretation seems less probable: [Λ?] Ἄπιον Ἡρακλείδην, etc.· “‘…Apion den Herakleides…’ Ungewöhnlich ist, daß hier die Bestattende, vielleicht die Ehefrau, angeführt ist”). Apparently the mason reproduced both alternative abbreviations that he found in his copy, a phenomenon occurring elsewhere; cf. no. 689, 3–4 comm.
2–3 For the possible use of the accusative in cinerarium inscriptions, see no. 611, 3 comm.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP