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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.

Illustrations:

Photograph of MAMA XI 117 (Akmoneia 19: 1956-64)

Photograph of MAMA XI 117 (Akmoneia 19: 1956-64)

Drawing of MAMA XI 117 (Akmoneia 19: 1956-64)

Drawing of MAMA XI 117 (Akmoneia 19: 1956-64)