IG XII 3 1232: Funerary Inscription by Ti. Kl. Poleas and Stasimos Rouphou
Modern Publication(s): IG XII 3 1232; CIG II Add. 2439c
Brief description: Funerary inscription
Attributes
Inscription Type: Funerary
Object Type: tabula
Material: marble
Original Location: Unknown
Provenance: Seen by Ross 'in vico Adamante' (in the village of Adamas, Melos) 'apud antiquitatum mercatorem'.
Date: Imperial
Dimensions: H. 13 1/2 inches; L. 16 1/8 inches. (Gatty)
Layout: 13 lines of text. This is possibly cut as a palimpsest: it appears to be cut into a sunk surface with a few traces of letters on the raised edges.
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: Complete
Decoration: Plain border
Collection
Location: National Museums Liverpool (World Museum)
Collector: Gift of Joseph Mayer (1803-86)
Date collected: Mayer made donations to the Liverpool Corporation in 1867, but it is not known how it came into his collection.
Accession or catalogue number: National Museums Liverpool (World Museum), M 8846
Translation
Ti(berios) Kl(audios) Poleas and Stasimos Rouphou constructed this memorial, on equal terms, when they were alive; Stasimos for himself and for his wife Eikonio and for their descendants and for their dependants and for their freedmen and for whomsoever he wishes to grant the privilege, on the right hand side, consisting of three spaces; Poleas for both himself and for his kin and for his freedmen and his slaves.
Gatty suggests 'the double spaces alluded to are doubtless the sunk apertures in the walls of the tomb, to hold either a body or an urn containing ashes'.
Bibliography
C. T. Gatty, Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities in the Mayer Museum (Liverpool, 1883), no. 1 (= Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire 34 (1883) 39-66, no. 1).
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Courtesy National Museums Liverpool, World Museum
