IK Smyrna 206: Memorial of Ti. Cl. Cu(l)chius
Modern Publication(s): CIG 3318; Michaelis, Ince Blundell 394; IK Smyrna 206; McCabe, Smyrna 537
Brief description: Funerary inscription
Attributes
Inscription Type: Funerary
Object Type: Tabula with raised border around recessed area
Material: Marble
Original Location: unknown
Provenance: Smyrna (CIG 3318)
Date: Imperial
Dimensions: H. 0.36; W. 0.61.
Layout: 11 lines of text, starting on upper border.
Writing: Inscribed; letter size 0.017-0.026
Condition: Image in IK Smyrna shows upper border preserved, but broken away on all other sides. Current condition unknown.
Decoration: Raised border.
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.
Accession or catalogue number:
Translation
Ti. Cl. Cu(l)chius Eutaktos constructed this memorial for himself and for his wife and for their children and grandchildren and dependants and freedmen. No-one has the power other than me alone to sell or to bring in another corpse. If anyone dares to sell or to bring in another corpse, he will pay to the gerousia and the neoi 2 denarii. A copy of this inscription is lodged in the archive.
Bibliography
A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge, 1882), 412, no. 394
Web Links
Image(s)
See IK Smyrna plate 10.
