MAMA XI 93 (Traianopolis) 
Funerary doorstone of Asklas and family
- Type of monument:
- Funerary doorstone.
- Location:
- Çarık Köyü (Traianopolis): in front of the mosque.
- Description:
- Upper part of grey marble quadruple doorstone (Waelkens 1986: 144-5, Typ G Uşak 1), broken below. In the spandrels of the archivolts: (1) palmette acroterium; (2) vine or ivy plant growing from cauliculus, with flowers at the ends of the lateral branches; (3) chalice; (4) vine or ivy plant growing from cauliculus, with small Maltese cross at the end of the left branch; (5) hidden by modern mortar. In the tympana: (1) and (2) comb, mirror and perfume bottle; (3) vine-pruner; (4) wheel with six spokes, or perhaps constantinianum. Inscription on the upper lintel. The lower part of the doorstone (Ht. 0.59+) lay nearby, thickly encrusted with modern mortar.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.48+; W. 2.02; Th. 0.38; letters 0.035.
- Record:
- Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/31).
- Publication:
- Waelkens 1986: 154, no. 390.
- Date:
- c. AD 200 (doorstone type)
[- - ἑαυ]τῆι καὶ τῶι ἀνδρὶ Ἀσκλᾷ καὶ Στ[ρατονε]ίκῃ καὶ Ἀβασκάντωι τῶι υ̣ἱ̣[ῶι - -]
Line 1: (at beginning) [ἑα]υ̣τ̣ῇ̣ W(aelkens); (at end) Ἀβασκάντῳ γον̣[εῦσιν - -] W.
... for herself and her husband Asklas and Stratoneike and Abaskantos her son ...
Illustrations:
Left side of MAMA XI 93 (Traianopolis 4: 1956-31)
Right side of MAMA XI 93 (Traianopolis 4: 1956-31)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 93 (Traianopolis 4: 1956-31)
