Inscribed Stele: Funerary Inscription for wife of Apollophanes, son of Apollophanes, of the tribe Asias

Date
2nd century AD (Möbius)., Roman
Museum
Manisa, Archaeological and Ethnographic Museum, 174
Museum Inventory No.
174
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Manisa 174
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Stele, Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
		     Ἀπολλοφάνης
		Ἀπολλοφάνους Ἀσιά-
		   δος ἐτείμησεν.
Inscription Translation
“Apollophanes, son of Apollophanes, of (the phyle) Asias, has honored (his wife [shown in the relief]).”
Inscription Comment
Site
Çaltılı
Findspot
Found in 1956 in the fields northeast of the Acropolis, near the village of Çaltılı. Nos. 669 and 670 were parts of the same funerary complex.
Description

Stele of marble with triangular pediment. In a rectangular recess above the inscription, a woman stands between a bird (eagle?), and a distaff and spindle.

Dimensions
H. 1.90, W. 0.56, Th. 0.16, H. of letters 0.03.
Comments

See no. 669 comm.

Herrmann gives the inventory number as Manisa 1156.

See Also
Bibliography
cf. Malay, Manisa Museum, p. 99, no. 310 (no text); P. Herrmann, Neue Inschriften zur historischen Landeskunde von Lydien…, Denkschriften 77, 1 (1959), p. 7 (= id., Ausgew. Schriften, p. 12), no. 4, pl. I 5 = id., Ausgew. Schriften, p. 32, fig. 6 (SEG 19, 713; Pfuhl and Möbius, Ostgr. Grabrel. I, no. 428, pl. 70).
Author
GP