MAMA XI 19 (Apollonia)

Stele with vine and pruning-hook

Type of monument:

Stele with relief.

Location:

Yassıviran (Yassıören), Apollonia: in a lane.

Description:

Limestone stele, pilasters to left and right with capitals supporting entablature; gabled pediment above. Between the capitals, garland in relief, suspended from bucrania at left and right; on the shaft, vine-plant in relief, curling around an unidentifiable object in relief; below, falx vinitoria in relief. Broken above, otherwise complete. Faint traces of inscription on entablature.

Dimensions:

Ht. 1.38+; W. 0.55 (capitals), 0.50-0.53 (shaft), 0.55 (base); Th. 0.24.

Record:

MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/102).

Publication:

None.

Date:

Roman imperial period.