Inscribed Cinerarium: Latin Funerary Inscription for Marcus Vigellius Rufus

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 629
Date
December 7, 15 BC., Hellenistic
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Uninv. M14 No.629
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Cinerarium Lid, Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Latin
Inscription Text
		M(arco) Druso Libone, L(ucio) Calpurni[o]
		            Pisone co(n)s(ulibus), a(nte) d(iem) VII I(dus) Decembres,
		M(arcus) Vigellius Rufus
	4	            annis natus LXX.
Inscription Translation
“When M(arcus Livius) Drusus Libo and L(ucius) Calpurnius Piso were consuls, on the 7th of December, (died) M(arcus) Vigellius Rufus aged seventy years.”
Inscription Comment
Site
Salihli
Findspot
Allegedly brought from Salihli to the Manisa Museum in 2004; attributed to Sardis by the edd. prr.
Description

Cinerarium of marble. The inscription is on the chest.

Dimensions
H. 0.25, W. 0.46, Th. 0.39, H. of letters ll. 1 and 3 0.02–0.04; ll. 2 and 4 0.02.
Comments

Between the single words there are dots or small hooks.

3 Pointing to the mention of members of the gens Vigellia in TAM V 3, 1692 (b) and SEG 48, 1428, Malay and Petzl assume that the Vigellii were active in Lydia as negotiatores; see also no. 587, 3–4 comm.

See Also
Bibliography
H. Malay and G. Petzl, EpAnat 38 (2005), pp. 40–41, no. 8, with photograph (AE 2005, 1452 [erroneously attributed to Philadelpheia]).
Author
GP

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