# Pedestal with inscription

**URL:** <https://www.textkit.com/t/pedestal-with-inscription/20172>\
**Category:** Civilization and Culture of the Greeks and Romans\
**Created:** [July 14, 2023, 7:33am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/pedestal-with-inscription/20172 "2023-07-14T07:33:42Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
**Page:** 1

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![will.dawe](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@will.dawe](https://www.textkit.com/u/will.dawe)\
**Post date:** [July 14, 2023, 7:33am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/pedestal-with-inscription/20172/1 "2023-07-14T07:33:42Z")

</div>

This year I went to Uzbekistan (i.e. Bactria) and saw this pedestal in a local museum. The collection was made by grand duke Nicholas Konstantinovich, probably during his travel to Italy in the late XIX century.

[![](https://github.com/Financial-Times/polyfill-library/assets/13879891/708f803b-d9d1-4f94-887a-538da1460fe3)](https://github.com/Financial-Times/polyfill-library/assets/13879891/6b62c4eb-5445-43e0-bbad-c38579becb51)

Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum contains exactly the same text [X n. 2274](https://db.edcs.eu/epigr/epi_url.php?s_sprache=en&p_publication=CIL+10,+02274) (does it mean the pedestal was moved from Pozzuoli to Uzbekistan?):

> Dis / Manibus / sac(rum) / Ti(berio) Claudio / Calligenis filio / Quirin(a) Scymno

The first part is easy:

> (To the) sacred spirits of the dead

But the lower part confuses me. Who made it and in whose memory? As I understood from other inscriptions, the usual template is [In memory of] + [made by]:

> (In memory of) Tiberius Claudius (made by) son of Calligen from the tribe of Quirina

Is it close to the correct reading?

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![Stoicorumsimia](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/s/b5a626/32.png) [@Stoicorumsimia](https://www.textkit.com/u/Stoicorumsimia)\
**Post date:** [September 19, 2023, 3:25pm UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/pedestal-with-inscription/20172/2 "2023-09-19T15:25:44Z")

</div>

There’s no ‘made by’ in this inscription. The man’s name is Tiberius Claudius Scymnus (in the dative), son of Calligenes, of the Quirina tribe.

---

<div class="post-metadata">

**Author:** ![will.dawe](https://www.textkit.com/letter_avatar_proxy/v4/letter/w/45deac/32.png) [@will.dawe](https://www.textkit.com/u/will.dawe)\
**Post date:** [September 20, 2023, 9:58am UTC](https://www.textkit.com/t/pedestal-with-inscription/20172/3 "2023-09-20T09:58:15Z")

</div>

> [@](#):
>
> There’s no ‘made by’ in this inscription. The man’s name is Tiberius Claudius Scymnus (in the dative), son of Calligenes, of the Quirina tribe.

Agree, I came to the same conclusion. Before, I tried to fit the inscription to the said template, but it was unsatisfying.