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Funerary doorstone of Valerius Rufus and family

Type of monument:
Funerary doorstone.
Location:
Kırka (Sebaste): in a fountain (Kavaklı Çeşme) 1km SSE of the village.
Description:
White marble doorstone; no description. Inscription in two registers on the upper mouldings.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.89; W. 0.85 (doors 0.54); Th. 0.32; letters 0.018-0.021 (lines 1-2), 0.008-0.012 (lines 3-4)
Record:
Squeeze; line drawing (inscription only); MB notebook copy (1956/38).
Publication:
None
Date:
II-III AD.
 
 

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[- -]α ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ καὶ Οὐαλέριος Ῥοῦφος ὁ υἱὸς [ἀγο]-
ρανο̣μήσαντι καὶ στρατηγήσαντι κ̣αὶ εἰρ̣ηναρχήσαντι καὶ δεκαπρωτεύσ̣α̣-
ντ[ι μνεί]ας χάριν ζήσαντι ἔτη λ̣γ̣´
...a his wife and Valerius Rufus his son, having held the offices of agoranomos and strategos and eirenarch and dekaprotos, in memoriam, having lived for 33(?) years.

For the practice of listing the offices held by an individual on his funerary monument, see the commentary to MAMA XI 120 (1956/67: Akmoneia).

Illustrations:

Squeeze of l. 1 of MAMA XI 74 (Sebaste 10: 1956-38)

Squeeze of l. 1 of MAMA XI 74 (Sebaste 10: 1956-38)

Squeeze of ll. 2-3 of MAMA XI 74 (Sebaste 10: 1956-38)

Squeeze of ll. 2-3 of MAMA XI 74 (Sebaste 10: 1956-38)

Drawing of MAMA XI 74 (Sebaste 10: 1956-38)

Drawing of MAMA XI 74 (Sebaste 10: 1956-38)