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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.

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’).

Illustrations:

Squeeze of MAMA XI 22 (Apameia 1: 1956-79)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 22 (Apameia 1: 1956-79)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 22 (Apameia 1: 1956-79)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 22 (Apameia 1: 1956-79)