World Museum 16.5.72.7: Funerary Inscription for Epaphroditos

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).

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

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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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