AIUK46 no. 12 Grave marker of Timon of Sinope

Grave marker of Timon of Sinope

AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 12 Date: ii-i BC

Timon the Sinopean.^[1]

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AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments) no. 12 (Translated text) (AIUK) (AIO)

IG II² 10354 (PHI)

GIBM I 110

Translation by: Robert Pitt

AIO Images: 1

Monument type: Cippus

Inscription type: Funerary

Findspot: Athens? (BM 2013,5017.3)

Transliterations on Places on

[1] It is not known how this inscription came to the British Museum. The small, low form of the monument may indicate that it is what Cicero (De Legibus 2.66) called a labellum. Timon is among over a hundred people known at Athens from Sinope, modern Sinop in Turkey on the south coast of the Black Sea. This harbour city was particularly known for exporting ruddle, a red ochre used in the maintenance of ships (see RO 40). For more detailed discussion of the inscription see AIUK 4.6 (BM, Funerary Monuments), no. 12.

Added: 6 Apr 2022
Updated: 6 Apr 2022
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