View source for IK Smyrna 244: Memorial of Ulpius Iulius Trophimos

[[Category:Ince Blundell Hall]]


'''Modern Publication(s):''' ''CIG'' 3385; ''IK Smyrna'' 244; McCabe, ''Smyrna'' 651

'''Brief description:''' Funerary Inscription


== Attributes ==

'''Inscription Type:''' Funerary

'''Object Type:''' Tabula with raised border at bottom

'''Material:''' Marble

'''Original Location:''' unknown

'''Provenance:''' Smyrna, once in the house of the Dutch Consul (''IK Smyrna'' 244)

'''Date:''' Imperial

'''Dimensions:''' H. 0.354; Width 0.714.

'''Layout:''' 10 lines of text.

'''Writing:''' Inscribed; letter-height: 0.018 (line 1, but thereafter smaller).

'''Condition:''' Complete, when photographed for ''IK Smyrna''. Current condition unknown.

'''Decoration:''' Raised border at bottom


== Collection ==
'''Location:''' Ince Blundell Hall. Said by ''IK Smyrna'' to be built into the front side of the Garden Temple at Ince Blundell Hall. Understood to have been removed during the refurbishment of the Garden Temple and returned to the hall in autumn 2010.  

'''Collector:''' Henry Blundell, purchased at Lord Besborough's sale.

'''Date collected:''' Purchased by Blundell in April 1801, but known earlier. 

'''Accession or catalogue number:'''

== Translation ==
Ulpius Iouli(us) Trophimos of Smyrna, councilor and euposiarch and prytanis; I bought this hero-shrine and after purchasing also a cinerary-urn I built this for myself and for my wife Tuche and for our children and grandchildren and dependants and freedmen. No one else has the power to bury any other here nor to sell anything from those who are here. If anyone dares to do such a thing, he will pay 5 denarii to the Mother of the Gods Sipylene.

== Bibliography ==


== Web Links ==
[http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=255575&bookid=525&region=8&subregion=29 Greek text, from PHI]


== Image(s) ==
See ''IK Smyrna'' Plate 17 no. 244