MAMA XI 14 (Apollonia) 
Funerary stele of Tata, daughter of Menneas
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Uluborlu (Apollonia): in an orchard below the town.
- Description:
- Limestone stele with gabled pediment, chipped above; in the pediment, defaced relief. First line of inscription on moulding, remainder on shaft.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.02+; W. 0.44 (upper moulding), 0.40 (shaft), 0.44; Th. 0.38 (upper moulding), 0.38 (shaft), 0.43; letters 0.025-0.030.
- Record:
- Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/82).
- Publication:
- Labarre, Özsait, Özsait and Güceren 2012: 135, no.20.
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
Μητρόδωρος
Σωτηρίχου,
φύσι δὲ Ἀλεξάνδρ-
ου, Τατᾳ Μενναίου
5τῇ εἰδίᾳ γυναικεὶ
γλυκυτάτῃ μνήμη[ς]
[χάρ]ιν· Μητρόδωρος
· β´ · τῇ εἰδίᾳ τεκούσῃ
μνήμης χάριν.
10 hed.
Metrodoros, (adoptive) son of Soterichos, natural son of Alexandros, for Tata daughter of Menneas, his own sweetest wife, in memoriam; Metrodoros, son of Metrodoros, for his own mother, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
Squeeze of MAMA XI 14 (Apollonia 14: 1956-82)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 14 (Apollonia 14: 1956-82)
Published, with inaccurate readings and translation, by Labarre, Özsait, Özsait and Güceren 2012: 135, no.20. Μενναίου in line 4 is a phonetic variant of Μεννέου (from Μεννέας), a name which was common at Apollonia: see MAMA IV 137, 189, 197, 208, 209, 222. On the term τεκοῦσα (‘mother’) in line 8, see Robert, Hellenica XI-XII, 388-9, and cf. MAMA XI 123 (1955/93: Akmoneia); MAMA XI 23 (1994/2: Apameia).