IK Smyrna 289: Funerary inscription by Melitea Stratoneikes
Modern Publication(s): IK Smyrna 289; CIG 3349; McCabe Smyrna 574
Brief description: Funerary inscription by Melitea Stratoneikes for self and family
Attributes
Inscription Type: Funerary
Object Type: Plaque
Material: Marble
Original Location: Unknown
Provenance: Smyrna: ex Tournefontianis (CIG). Copied by Sherard when it was at his house in Smyrna.
Date: imperial
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Writing: Inscribed, showing traces of red paint.
Condition: Mostly complete, but damaged at top left and rop right-hand corners.
Decoration: Moulding on back.
Collection
Location: National Museums Liverpool (World Museum)
Collector: Perhaps purchased by Blundell in the Besborough sale at Roehampton in April 1801; gift of Joseph Weld in 1959 to Liverpool Museums
Date collected: Brought to the UK in late eighteenth century; purchased by Blundell in 1801
Accession or catalogue number: National Museums Liverpool (World Museum) 59.148.1028
Translation
Melitea Stratoneikes, while alive, constructed this memorial for herself and for her husband Glaukias and her very own children and descendants. Demosthenis the daughter of Demosthenes, the grand-daughter of Melitea, deposited a copy in the archive.
Bibliography
H. Blundell, Engravings and etchings of sepulchral monuments, cinerary urns, gems, bronzes, prints, Greek inscriptions, fragments, &c. in the collection of Henry Blundell, Esq. at Ince. Vol. II (London, 1809), pl. 154, IV
Sherard, Brit. Mus. Ms Add. 10101, fol. 177, no. 12.
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