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Funerary doorstone of Gaios and Tatia

Type of monument:
Funerary doorstone.
Location:
Sebaste: in a fountain about 1km west of Kırka on the road to Kabaklar.
Description:
Upper part of marble doorstone (Waelkens 1986: 162, Typ C Akmonia 1), broken below. Single door, with upper pair of blank panels visible. Ivy-scroll pilasters to right and left. Frame above the door, beveled below. Archivolt with three fascias; in the tympanum, a wreath. Inscription on the middle fascia of the archivolt, continuing onto the frame above the door.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.66+; W. 0.88; Th. 0.15+; letters 0.020-0.035.
Record:
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/35).
Publication:
Ramsay, Phrygia II 610, no. 507.
Date:
c. AD 175-250 (doorstone type).
 
 

Γάϊος Τατίᾳ γυναικὶ φρονίμῳ καὶ φιλάνδρῳ
καὶ ἑαυ[τ]ῷ̣ ζῶν μνή[μης χά]ριν
Gaios, for Tatia his prudent and husband-loving wife, and for himself, while still living, in memoriam.

This monument was produced in an Akmoneian workshop, which also served the territory of Diokleia for a period in the late second century AD (Waelkens 1986: 178, no. 443).

Illustrations:

Photograph of MAMA XI 76 (Sebaste 12: 1956-35)

Photograph of MAMA XI 76 (Sebaste 12: 1956-35)

Drawing of MAMA XI 76 (Sebaste 12: 1956-35)

Drawing of MAMA XI 76 (Sebaste 12: 1956-35)