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
Layout:
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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Image(s)
Now lost; no known images are extant.
