IK Smyrna 427: Funerary Inscription for Flavia Aurelia Makaria

Modern Publication(s): CIG 3347 and 6558; McCabe, Smyrna 673; IK Smyrna 427; IG XIV 2091; IGUR II 1037

Brief description: Funerary or Honorary Inscription

Attributes

Inscription Type: Honorary/Funerary

Object Type: Tabula

Material: White-grey marble

Original Location: Unknown

Provenance: Rome, 'in via di Spolgia Cristo, in arca fracta' (Muret, Novus Thesaurus vol. III (1740) p. 1343, no. 2 (e schedis Ptolomeis), followed by CIG 6558, citing Ptol. Cod. Senens VIII 3, 391; cf. IG XIV 2091; IGUR II 1037) but placed among the inscriptions of Smyrna by Boeckh (CIG 3347, followed by IK Smyrna 427): he followed Mueller's view that all of the Bessborough marbles (IK Smyrna 206, 244, 268, 289, 290) came from Smyrna.

Date: Imperial, perhaps 3rd century AD or later.

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Layout: Letters inscribed within the tabula ansata moulding

Writing: Inscribed

Condition: Complete

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, 6558; 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 (London, 1809), pl. 154, V

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

Image(s)

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