Inscribed Plaque: Funerary Inscription for Artemidoros, by his son Tatianos and his wife Nike

Monograph 14: Sardis: Greek and Latin Inscriptions, Part II: Finds from 1958 to 2017 (2019) Cat. 674
Date
3rd century AD (letter shape [ed. pr.])., Roman
Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
Uninv. M14 No.674
Material
Marble, Stone
Object Type
Inscription
Inscription Type
Funerary Inscription
Inscription language
Greek
Inscription Text
	       Ἀνθυπάτῳ Καλπουρνίῳ Πρό-
	           κλῳ, μη(νὸς) Ὑπερβερταίου β´.
		Τατιανὸς Ἀρτεμι-
	4	δώρου κατεσκεύα-
		σε τὸ μνημεῖον
		τῷ ἑαυτοῦ πατρὶ Ἀρ-
		τεμιδώρῳ μνείας
	8	χάριν· ἐτείμησε
		καὶ Νείκη τὸν ἑαυ-
		τῆς ἄνδρα.
		           vacat
		           χαῖρε.
Inscription Translation
“Under the proconsulship of Calpurnius Proc(u)lus, on the second day of the month Hyperbertaios. Tatianos, son of Artemidoros, built the tomb for his own father for the sake of memory. Nike, too, honored her own husband. Farewell!”
Inscription Comment
Site
Asar Tepe
Findspot
Found in “Asar Tepe” near Çapaklı, northeast of Sardis. The present whereabouts are unknown.
Description

Plaque of bluish marble with depictions of a tabula ansata, ivy tendrils, and flowers. Ll. 3–10 stand in a framed recess, ll. 1–2 above, l. 11 below.

Dimensions
H. 0.54, W. 0.82, Th. 0.12, H. of letters 0.022.
Comments

1–2 For the dating by the proconsul’s name in the dative (corresponding to the Latin ablativus temporis) see no. 322, 9.

Calpurnius Proculus: see E. Groag, PIR2 C 302, who considers him to be identical with either PIR2 C 303 (L. Capurnius Proclus) or C 304 (P. Calpurnius Proculus).

See Also
Bibliography
Keil–Premerstein I, pp. 67–68, no. 144, with drawing fig. 63 (G. Lafaye, IGRR IV 1365, under “Daldis,” but the inscription is not given among the Daldian items in TAM V 1, as Çapaklı [see also nos. 321 and 325] seems to have belonged to the territory of Sardis).
Author
GP

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