MAMA XI 78 (Sebaste) 
Funerary doorstone of Asklas’ mother
- Type of monument:
- Funerary doorstone.
- Location:
- Sivaslı (Sebaste): in a street.
- Description:
- Marble doorstone with gabled pediment (Waelkens 1986: 181 Typ C Payamalanı 2), broken above. Single door, with two pairs of panels. In the upper panels: (left) plant; (right) key-plate. In the lower panels: (left) circular boss; (right) door-knocker. In the pediment, comb, mirror and perfume bottle; above, half-palmettes. Inscription on the frame above the door.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.90+; W. 0.79; Th. 0.18; letters 0.015-0.020.
- Record:
- Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/74).
- Publication:
- Ramsay, Phrygia II 605, no. 490.
- Date:
- Mid- or late Severan period (doorstone type).
Ἀσκλᾶς β´ τῇ μητρὶ μνήμης χάριν
Asklas, son of Asklas, for his mother, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
Photograph of MAMA XI 78 (Sebaste 14: 1956-74)
Drawing of MAMA XI 78 (Sebaste 14: 1956-74)
This funerary doorstone is of exactly the same design as Drew-Bear 1978: 110-11, no. 49 (SEG 28, 1129; Waelkens 1986: 183, no. 455), and is evidently a contemporary product of the same workshop. The doorstone published by Drew-Bear was discovered at Menteş, on the territory of Eumeneia. Given the complete absence of doorstones of this type among the funerary monuments of Eumeneia, Drew-Bear had already suggested that the Menteş doorstone was a pierre errante from the province of Uşak; Waelkens tentatively assigned it to Payamalanı on the basis of its similarity to another doorstone from Payamalanı (Waelkens 1986: 182-3, no. 454), while leaving open the possibility that its true origin was in fact Sivaslı. The similarity with our monument makes it clear that the Menteş doorstone ought also to be assigned to Sivaslı.