IK Smyrna 289: Funerary inscription by Melitea Stratoneikes

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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


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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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