View source for World Museum 16.5.72.7: Funerary Inscription for Epaphroditos

[[Category:Liverpool, World Museum]]
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'''Modern Publication(s):''' Michaelis, ''Ancient Marbles'', p. 425 (Liverpool, no. 9); Gatty no. 4

'''Brief description:''' Funerary inscription


== Attributes ==

'''Inscription Type:''' Funerary

'''Object Type:''' Round column of limestone.

'''Material:''' Limestone

'''Original Location:''' Unknown

'''Provenance:''' 'Cyprus, where Gen. Cesnola found others similar.' (Gatty) 

'''Date:''' {{{InscriptionDate}}}

'''Dimensions:''' H. 26 3/4 inches; diameter of column 8 3/4 inches

'''Layout:'''  

'''Writing:''' Inscribed

'''Condition:''' Unknown

'''Decoration:''' 'Round column with clumsy, curious, articulations at top and bottom, furnished with a hole on the top for fastening on an ornament or case' (Michaelis); 'roughly carved mouldings' (Getty)


== Collection ==
'''Location:''' Unknown: lost probably during the Liverpool blitz, 1941

'''Collector:''' Presented to J. Mayer by Captain Fothergill of SS Thessalia

'''Date collected:''' 

'''Accession or catalogue number:''' National Museums Liverpool (World Museum) 16.5.72.7


== Translation ==
'O Epaphroditos, Good Man, Farewell!'

== Bibliography ==

C. T. Gatty, ''Greek, Etruscan, and Roman Antiquities in the Mayer Museum'' (Liverpool, 1883), no. 4 (= ''Transactions of the Historic Society of Lancashire and Cheshire'' 34 (1883) 39-66, no. 4).

A. Michaelis, ''Ancient Marbles in Great Britain'' (Cambridge, 1882), p. 424 (Liverpool no. 6)

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