IK Smyrna 289: Funerary inscription by Melitea Stratoneikes

Modern Publication(s): IK Smyrna 289; CIG 3349; McCabe Smyrna 574

Brief description: Funerary inscription by Melitea Stratoneikes for self and family

Attributes

Inscription Type: Funerary

Object Type: Plaque

Material: Marble

Original Location: Unknown

Provenance: Smyrna: ex Tournefontianis (CIG). Copied by Sherard when it was at his house in Smyrna.

Date: imperial

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Writing: Inscribed

Condition: Mostly complete

Decoration: Moulding on back.

Collection

Location: National Museums Liverpool (World Museum)

Collector: Perhaps purchased by Blundell in the Besborough sale at Roehampton in April 1801; gift of Blundell to Liverpool Museums

Date collected: Brought to the UK in late eighteenth century; purchased by Blundell in 1801

Accession or catalogue number: National Museums Liverpool (World Museum) 59.148.1028

Translation

Melitea Stratoneikes, while alive, constructed this memorial for herself and for her husband Glaukias and

Bibliography

H. Blundell, Engravings and etchings of sepulchral monuments, cinerary urns, gems, bronzes, prints, Greek inscriptions, fragments, &c. in the collection of Henry Blundell, Esq. at Ince. Vol. II (London, 1809), pl. 154, IV

Sherard, Brit. Mus. Ms Add. 10101, fol. 177, no. 12.

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