MAMA XI 22 (Apameia) 
Funerary inscription of Demetrios and Tatia
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription.
- Location:
- Dikici (Apameia): in a lane.
- Description:
- Limestone block with plain recessed panel.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.94 (panel 0.55); W. 1.40 (panel 0.88); Th. 0.35; letters 0.030-0.040.
- Record:
- Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/79).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Third century AD.
Αὐρ(ήλιος) Δημήτριος β´ τοῦ Φιλίπου
ἐποίησα τὸ ἡρῷον σὺν τῷ
στατῷ τῷ πατρί μοι καὶ τῇ
μητρί μοι Τ̣α̣τ̣ίᾳ μ[ν]ί̣ας χ̣άριν
I, Aur(elius) Demetrios, son of Demetrios, son of Philippos, constructed the tomb with the orthostate (?) for my father and my mother Tatia, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
Squeeze of MAMA XI 22 (Apameia 1: 1956-79)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 22 (Apameia 1: 1956-79)
For the irrational use of the dative (μοι for μου) in lines 3 and 4, cf. SEG 19, 770 (Pisidia: Takina), εἴ τις δὲ τολμήσι μετ᾿ ἐμαὶ ἢ τὴν γυναῖκά μοι ἐπανῦξαι; Brixhe 1987: 83.
I can find no parallels for the use of the term στατός to refer to part of a tomb. In inscriptions from Delos and Mytilene, the term seems to be a variant of ὀρθοστάτης (Hellmann 1992: 410). A funerary monument is described as an ‘orthostate’ in TAM V 2, 1076 (Thyateira: Αὐρ. Ματρία κατεσκεύασε τὸν ὀρθοστάτην ἑαυτῇ κτλ.), although it is unclear exactly what the term signifies here (Kubińska 1968: 90, ‘quelque sorte de soubassement’).