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); however, the inscription is 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. William Stenhouse points out to us that Muret's reference is to the collections of Francesco Tolomei, whose manuscripts are kept at Siena. He made a trip to Rome in 1666. Accordingly, Rome seems the more likely provenance for this stone.
Date: Imperial, perhaps 3rd century AD or later.
Dimensions: tbc
Layout: Letters inscribed within the tabula ansata moulding
Writing: Inscribed
Condition: Complete
Decoration: tabula ansata moulding
Collection
Location: National Museums Liverpool (World Museum)
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, but known earlier. Gift of Joseph Weld in 1959 to Liverpool Museums,
Accession or catalogue number: National Museums Liverpool (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
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