Tomb Garden Of Theodoros

Contributor: Amelia Lamis
Published: 2026-10-01
Last modified: 2026-10-01

Dates

fourth or fifth century CE

Excavation Dates

unspecified

Garden Description

A reused rectangular marble block from Smyrna housed since the middle of the eighteenth century in the Ashmolean Museum at Oxford records, in a secondary text carved lengthwise on the underside of the stone, the funerary donation of a garden (kepos) by a notary (sumbolaiographon) Ioannes, the son of Rufinus, from Smyrna, to his grandson Theodorus. The text, which is framed by Christian crosses, evidently dates from the period after Constantine, probably to the fourth or fifth century CE (Smyrna 898).

Bibliography

  • Chandler, R. 1763. Marmora Oxoniensia. Oxford, II 39,2. (Archive.org)
  • Petzl, G. 1982. Die Inschriften von Smyrna. Teil 1: Grabinschriften, postume Ehrungen, Grabepigramme. Inschriften griechischer Städte aus Kleinasien 23. Bonn. (worldcat)

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