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Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Cinerarium Lid Fragment: Funerary Inscription for Stratonike?, daughter of Apelles?, wife of Kaikos
- Date
- 1st century BC? (letter shape)., Hellenistic or Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN64.062
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
[Ἐπὶ . . .]ακος [τοῦ Ἀπο]λλωνίου, [μηνὸ]ς v Λ‹ῴ›ου ιδ´· 4 [ . . . . . . .]νίκην Ἀπελλ- [ . . . , γ]υ̣νὴ δὲ Κ̣α̣ΐκου, [ἐτῶν .]Ε̣.
- Inscription Translation
- “[In the year when Hier?]ax, son of Apollonios held office, on the fourteenth day of [month] Loos, (died) [Strato?]nike, daughter of Apell[es?], wife of Kaikos, [aged x+] five(?) [years].”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- HoB
- Trench
- MTW
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W13 / S184 ca. *109
- Findspot
- House of Bronzes sector, Middle Terrace West.
- Description
Right half of a cinerarium lid of marble. The surface is covered with incrustation.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.39, W. 0.29, Th. 0.07, H. of letters ca. 0.02.
- Comments
Herrmann’s text, restorations and notes.
1 Perhaps [Ἱέρ]ακος.
3 Λ‹ῴ›ου: ΛΟΟΥ, the stone, corrected from earlier ΛΟΥ.
4–5 Perhaps [Στρατο]νίκην. It seems that the deceased woman’s name is given in the accusative (cf. no. 611, 3 comm.), while l. 5 [γ]υνή continues with the nominative. - Ἀπελλ[έου]?, Herrmann; or Ἀπελλ[ήους] (see no. 452, 1; cf., e.g., IGSK 17, 2 [Ephesos], no. 4101A, 8) / Ἀπελλ[είους] (cf., e.g., IGSK 3 [Ilion], no. 10, 5; 15, 4); other forms of the name’s genitive are attested: Ἀπελλοῦ, Ἀπελλῆδος (the latter form in Malay and Petzl, New Religious Texts, no. 114).
5 Κάικος: For the personal name (attested also in Sardis VII 1, no. 1, col. I, 18), derived from the Mysian river, see K. Keil, Specimen onomatologi Graeci (1840), p. 87; Bechtel, Hist. Personennam., p. 555; L. Robert, Et. épig. philol., p. 200 n. 4; id., JSav 1968, pp. 211–12 (= Robert, Op. Min. VII, pp. 155–56 and id., Choix, pp. 142–43); and J. and L. Robert, BE 1965, 507.
6 The last visible letter is either E or Ξ.
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP