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Funerary Inscription for Hadrianos (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College) -
Funerary Inscription for Hadrianos (©Archaeological Exploration of Sardis/President and Fellows of Harvard College)
Inscribed Block: Verse Funerary Inscription for Hadrianos, son of Hadrianos and Sabina, a matrona stolata
- Date
- 2nd century AD? (see ll. 4–5 comm.)., Roman
- Sardis or Museum Inv. No.
- IN73.003
- Material
- Marble, Stone
- Object Type
- Inscription
- Inscription Type
- Funerary Inscription
- Inscription language
- Greek
- Inscription Text
Σωφροσύνῃ διαλάμψας ἑκκαίδεκα ἐτῶν Ἁδριανὸς υἱὸς Ἁδριανο̣ῦ̣ 4 καὶ μητρὸς Σαβείνης, ματρώνης στολάτης, ἐνθάδε κεῖμαι. leaf ἀλλὰ σὺ χαῖρε. leaf
- Inscription Translation
- “Conspicuous in temperance I, Hadrianos, son of Hadrianos and of the mother Sabina, a matrona stolata, am lying here, aged sixteen years. But you, farewell!”
- Inscription Comment
- Site
- Sardis
- Sector
- BS
- Locus
- BS Locus BS-W 13 (Area of)
- B-Grid Coordinates
- W59 / N5.2 *97
- Findspot
- Byzantine Shop W13.
- Description
Block of white marble.
- Dimensions
- H. 0.50, W. 0.53, Th. 0.30, H. of letters 0.037.
- Comments
Herrmann’s notes.
The single elements of the inscription, rhythmical units, are shown by their symmetrical arrangement: it is poetic prose, not an epigram.
It is striking that Hadrianos’s parents bear the names of the imperial couple.
4–5 Sabina: The name was borne by the prominent lady of consular rank, Claudia Antonia Sabina; see Sardis VII 1, no. 151, and no. 419, 14–15. See also M.-Th. Raepsaet-Charlier, Prosopographie des femmes de l’ordre sénatorial [1987], p. 203, no. 218. - For the title matrona stolata, see B. Holtheide, ZPE 38 (1980), pp. 127–34, with a list of testimonies (to which TAM V 1, 758, 6 can be added). According to him, testimonies start in the Severan period; one would like to put the inscription earlier in the second century AD. The husbands of matronae stolatae were of equestrian rank (Holtheide).
- See Also
- Bibliography
- Unpublished. Herrmann, ms.
- Author
- GP