IK Smyrna 206: Memorial of Ti. Cl. Cu(l)chius

Modern Publication(s): CIG 3318; Michaelis, Ince Blundell 394; IK Smyrna 206; McCabe, "Smyrna" 537

Brief description: Funerary inscription

Attributes

Inscription Type: Funerary

Object Type: Tabula with raised border around recessed area

Material: Marble

Original Location: unknown

Provenance: Smyrna (CIG 3318)

Date: Imperial

Dimensions: H. 0.36; W. 0.61.

Layout: 11 lines of text, starting on upper border.

Writing: Inscribed; letter size 0.017-0.026

Condition: Image in IK Smyrna shows upper border preserved, but broken away on all other sides. Current condition unknown.

Decoration: Raised border.

Collection

Location: Ince Blundell Hall. Said by IK Smyrna to be built into the front side of the Garden Temple at Ince Blundell Hall. Understood to have been removed during the refurbishment of the Garden Temple and returned to the hall in autumn 2010.

Collector: Henry Blundell, purchased at Lord Bessborough's sale

Date collected: Purchased by Blundell in April 1801.

Accession or catalogue number:

Translation

Ti. Cl. Cu(l)chius Eutaktos constructed this memorial for himself and for his wife and for their children and grandchildren and dependants and freedmen. No-one has the power other than me alone to sell or to bring in another corpse. If anyone dares to sell or to bring in another corpse, he will pay to the gerousia and the neoi 2 denarii. A copy of this inscription is lodged in the archive.

Bibliography

A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge, 1882), 412, no. 394

Web Links

Greek text, from PHI

Image(s)

See IK Smyrna plate 10.