IK Smyrna 427: Funerary Inscription for Flavia Aurelia Makaria

Modern Publication(s): CIG 3347; McCabe, Smyrna 673; IK Smyrna 427; IG XIV 2091; IGUR II 1037

Brief description: Funerary or Honorary Inscription

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Inscription Type: Honorary/Funerary

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Original Location: Unknown

Provenance: Smyrna (according to CIG 3347)

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Layout: Letters inscribed within the tabula ansata moulding

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Decoration: tabula ansata moulding

Collection

Location: World Museum, Liverpool

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

Accession or catalogue number: World Museum 59.148.366

Translation

Flavia Aurelia Makaria, a husband-loving woman. Aurelius Hygeinianos, to the sweetest wife.

Bibliography

CIG 3347; McCabe, Smyrna 673; IK Smyrna 427; IG XIV 2091; IGUR II 1037

H. Blundell, An Account of the Statues, Busts, Bass-relieves, Cinerary Urns, and Other Ancient Marbles, and Paintings, at Ince (Liverpool, 1803), 143, no. 306

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, pl. 154, V

A. Michaelis, Ancient Marbles in Great Britain (Cambridge, 1882), 410, no. 366

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Image(s)

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