View source for IK Smyrna 427: Funerary Inscription for Flavia Aurelia Makaria

[[Category:Liverpool, World Museum]]

'''Modern Publication(s):''' ''CIG'' 3347 and 6558; McCabe, ''Smyrna'' 673; ''IK Smyrna'' 427; ''IG'' XIV 2091; ''IGUR'' II 1037 

'''Brief description:''' Funerary or Honorary Inscription


== Attributes ==

'''Inscription Type:''' Honorary/Funerary

'''Object Type:''' Tabula

'''Material:''' White-grey marble

'''Original Location:''' Unknown

'''Provenance:''' Rome, 'in via di Spolgia Cristo, in arca fracta'  (Muret, ''Novus Thesaurus'' vol. III (1740) p. 1343, no. 2 (e schedis Ptolomeis), followed by ''CIG '' 6558, citing Ptol. ''Cod''. ''Senens'' VIII 3, 391; cf. ''IG'' XIV 2091; ''IGUR'' II 1037); however, the inscription is placed among the inscriptions of Smyrna by Boeckh (''CIG'' 3347, followed by ''IK Smyrna'' 427): he followed Mueller's view that all of the Bessborough marbles (''IK Smyrna'' 206, 244, 268, 289, 290) came from Smyrna. William Stenhouse points out to us that Muret's reference is to the collections of Francesco Tolomei, whose manuscripts are kept at Siena. He made a trip to Rome in 1666. Accordingly, Rome seems the more likely provenance for this stone.

'''Date:''' Imperial, perhaps 3rd century AD or later.

'''Dimensions:''' tbc

'''Layout:''' Letters inscribed within the ''tabula ansata'' moulding

'''Writing:''' Inscribed

'''Condition:''' Complete

'''Decoration:''' ''tabula ansata'' moulding

== Collection ==
'''Location:''' National Museums Liverpool (World Museum)

'''Collector:''' Henry Blundell; purchased at 'Lord Besborough's sale, at Roehampton, and much recommended as being interesting'.

'''Date collected:''' Purchased by Blundell in April 1801, but known earlier. Gift of Joseph Weld in 1959 to Liverpool Museums,

'''Accession or catalogue number:''' National Museums Liverpool (World Museum) 59.148.366

== Translation ==
Flavia Aurelia Makaria, a husband-loving woman. Aurelius Hygeinianos, to the sweetest wife.

== Bibliography ==
''CIG'' 3347, 6558; McCabe, ''Smyrna'' 673; ''IK Smyrna'' 427; ''IG'' XIV 2091; ''IGUR'' II 1037 

H. Blundell, ''An Account of the Statues, Busts, Bass-relieves, Cinerary Urns, and Other Ancient Marbles, and Paintings, at Ince'' (Liverpool, 1803), 143, no. 306

H. Blundell, ''Engravings and etchings of sepulchral monuments, cinerary urns, gems, bronzes, prints, Greek insriptions fragments, &c. in the collection of Henry Blundell, Esq. at Ince.'' Vol. II (London, 1809), pl. 154, V

A. Michaelis, ''Ancient Marbles in Great Britain'' (Cambridge, 1882), 410, no. 366

== Web Links ==
[http://epigraphy.packhum.org/inscriptions/oi?ikey=255599&bookid=525&region=8&subregion=29 Greek text, from PHI]

== Image(s) ==

Courtesy National Museums Liverpool, World Museum

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