IK Smyrna 290: Hipparchikos' Memorial
Modern Publication(s): CIG 3337; IK Smyrna 290; McCabe Smyrna 506
Brief description: Memorial for Hipparchikos and his family
Attributes
Inscription Type: Memorial
Object Type: Tabula Ansata
Material: Stone
Original Location: Smyrna?
Provenance: Unspecified, but IK Smyrna reports that it was seen and copied in Smyrna by the Dutch consul; CIG reports that it was copied by Pocock at Smyrna.
Date: Imperial
Dimensions: H 0.32; L 0.57
Layout: Eight lines, fairly evenly spaced
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: Broken on all sides (see image in IK Smyrna): current condition unknown.
Decoration: None
Collection
Location: Ince Blundell Hall, according to Petzl: 'jetzt vermauert in der Frontseite (aussen) des Garden Temple in Ince Blundell Hall / Liverpool' (IK Smyrna 290). Understood to have been removed in during the refurbishment of the Garden Temple and in 2010 moved to the Hall in Ince Blundell.
Collector: Henry Blundell; purchased at 'Lord Besborough's sale, at Roehampton, and much recommended as being interesting'.
Date collected: Purchased by Blundell in April 1801, but known earlier.
Accession or catalogue number:
Translation
'Hipparchikos son of Paramonos built this memorial for himself and for his wife Metrion and for their children and all their pets. A copy of this is is kept in [the archive].'
Bibliography
CIG 3337; McCabe Smyrna 506; IK Smyrna 290
H. Blundell, Engravings and etchings of sepulchral monuments, cinerary urns, gems, bronzes, prints, Greek insriptions fragments, &c. in the collection of Henry Blundell, Esq. at Ince. Vol. II (London, 1809), pl. 153, III
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Image(s)
See IK Smyrna Plate 21 no. 290
