SEG XLVII 2212: Fragment of a funerary relief
Modern Publication(s): Boschung et al. 81; SEG XLVII 2212
Brief description: Upper part of a funerary relief for a woman.
Contents
Attributes
Inscription Type: Funerary
Object Type: Stele
Material: White marble
Original Location: Not known, although possibly from the area of the Sea of Marmara. (Boschung et al.)
Provenance: Not known (see above).
Date: Hellenistic period or later. A precise date is impossible to determine due to the state of preservation. (Boschung et al.)
Dimensions: W. 0.29 m.
Layout: Four lines of text, each approximately 20 mm high, on the body of the stele between the tympanum and the relief. The inscription seems to begin with a form of ‘woman’: nominative γυνή, followed by KAEPETOY, or the accusative γυνῆκα (instead of γυναῖκα) followed by EPETOY. (Boschung et al.)
Writing: Inscribed.
Condition: The inscription when seen by Boschung was set into a garden wall with only the upper half visible. The surface is heavily corroded and the remnants of the relief and inscription can only be seen with difficulty. The pediment is scuffed at the corners, and the frame of the tympanum is largely destroyed. (Boschung et al.)
Decoration: The stele pediment was originally a simple, flat relief containing the image of a woman. The pediment was without ornament. (Boschung et al.)
Collection
Location: Chatsworth: garden.
Collector(s): William Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire. ‘…a piece of marble from the Sea of Marmora [sic], given to me by Etienne Pisani, attached to Lord Ponsonby’s embassy’. (Cavendish)
Date collected: Ponsonby was ambassador in Constantinople from 1 May 1833 to 10 Oct 1841; the inscription was presumably acquired by Willliam Cavendish in or shortly after this period.
Accession or catalogue number: Not known.
Bibliography
D. Boschung, H. von Hesberg, A. Linfert, Monumenta Artis Romanae XXII: Die antiken Skulpturen in Chatsworth sowie in Dunham Massey und Withington Hall (Mainz 1997), no. 81.
W. Spencer Cavendish, 6th Duke of Devonshire, Handbook of Chatsworth and Hardwick (London 1845) 160.
Image(s)
Boschung et al., Plate 73.1.
A sketch of the inscription is provided at Boschung et al., page 82.
