MAMA XI 117 (Akmoneia)
Funerary doorstone of Hermogas and Prima
- Type of monument:
- Funerary doorstone.
- Location:
- Akmoneia: between Şaban and Erciş, in a fountain (Deydivan Çeşmesi).
- Description:
- Marble doorstone (Waelkens 1986: 162, Typ C Akmonia 1). Twin door with four large panels (blank); pilasters with a leaf pattern to left and right. Archivolt with three fascias (outer fascia beveled below); in the tympanum, spindle, distaff, mirror and comb. Above the archivolt, central palmette (?). Inscription on the middle fascia of the archivolt, continuing onto the frame above the right pilaster.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.80; W. 0.51; Th. --; letters 0.013-0.026.
- Record:
- Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/64).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- c. AD 175-250 (doorstone type)
Ἑρμογᾶς τῇ γυναικὶ Πρίμᾳ μν⟨ή⟩μης χάρ|ιν
Hermogas, for his wife Prima, in memoriam.
On the name Ἑρμογᾶς (a hypocoristic form of Ἑρμογένης), see MAMA IX 135.