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See ''IK Ephesos'' Taf. 21 no. 290
 
See ''IK Ephesos'' Taf. 21 no. 290

Revision as of 14:57, 28 April 2014

Modern Publication(s): IK Smyrna 290

Brief description: Memorial for Hipparchikos and his family


Attributes

Inscription Type: Memorial

Object Type: Tabula Ansata

Material: Stone

Original Location: Smyrna?

Provenance: Unspecified, but 'IK Smyrna' reports that it was seen and copied in Smyrna by the Dutch consul

Date:

Dimensions: H 0.32; L 0.57

Layout: Eight lines, fairly evenly spaced

Writing: Inscribed

Condition: Broken on all sides.

Decoration: None

Collection

Location: Ince Blundell Hall, according to Petzl: 'jetzt vermauert in der Frontseite (aussen) des Garden Temple in Ince Blundell Hall / Liverpool' (IK Smyrna 290).

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.

Accession or catalogue number: tbc

Translation

'Hipparchikos son of Paramonos built this memorial for himself and for his wife Metrion and for their children and all their pets. A copy of this is is kept in the archive.'

Bibliography

'CIG' 3337; McCabe 'Smyrna' 506; 'IK Smyrna' 290

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. 153, III

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Greek text (from PHI)

Image(s)

See IK Ephesos Taf. 21 no. 290