MAMA XI 80 (Sebaste)

Funerary doorstone of Aur. Glykon and Ammia

Type of monument:: Funerary doorstone.
Location:: Kırka (Sebaste): in a fountain.
Description:: Marble doorstone with gabled pediment. Single door, with two pairs of panels and pilasters to left and right. In the upper panels: (left) lyre and plectrum (?); (right) keyhole. In the lower panels: (left) stilus-case; (right) spindle and distaff. In the pediment, circular boss. Inscription in the pediment, continuing onto the frame above the door and onto the left pilaster.
Dimensions:: Ht. 0.85; W. 0.54; Th. --; letters 0.010-0.019.
Record:: Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/36).
Publication:: None.
Date:: AD 216 (Year 301 of Sullan era, Month 1).

top of pediment
ἔτει
around the circular boss
τρειακοσιοστῷ α΄ μη(νὸς) α̣´
l. side of pediment
Αὐρ.
Γλύκων
5Παιθου
ἑαυτῷ
καὶ Ἀμμίᾳ συνβίῳ
ζή-
σας
10ἔτη
ος´
r. side of pediment
ὃς ἂν
δὲ ἕτε-
ρον θή-
15σει ἀποδώ-
σει ἰς τὸ τα-
μεῖον (δηνάρια) φ´

Year 301, Month 1. Aur. Glykon, son of Paithos, for himself and his wife Ammia, having lived for 76 years. Whoever places anyone else (in the tomb), he shall pay to the treasury 500 denarii.

Ιn line 2 (inscribed in a circle around the boss in the centre of the pediment), we appear to have the normal abbreviation for μη(νός) (eta inscribed above mu). For this way of indicating the date, compare e.g. TAM V 1, 330 (Kula): ἔτους τρειακοσιοστοῦ νς΄, μη(νὸς) Πανήμου β΄; for the practice of numbering rather than naming the months in this region, compare MAMA XI 66 (1956/34: Dioskome, territory of Sebaste: μη(νὸς) δεκάτου); MAMA XI 90 (1956/30: Traianopolis: μηνὸς ιβ΄); MAMA XI 36 (1954/14: Eumeneia: μη(νὸς) β΄); MAMA XI 35 (Barnett 1954/2: Eumeneia: μη(νὸς) η΄); MAMA XI 143 (1955/46: Koçhisar: μη(νὸς) βι΄); MAMA XI 144 (1955/88: Kilter [Çevrepınar]: μ(ηνὸς) γ΄); probably MAMA XI 38 (1954/17: Eumeneia); MAMA XI 79 (1954/26: Eibeos, territory of Sebaste).