IK Smyrna 290: Hipparchikos' Memorial

Modern Publication(s): CIG 3337; IK Smyrna 290; McCabe Smyrna 506

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: Imperial

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

Web Links

Greek text (from PHI)

Image(s)

See IK Smyrna Taf. 21 no. 290