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Funerary doorstone of Cl. Euneikos

Type of monument:
Funerary doorstone.
Location:
Kızılcasöğüt (Akmoneia): in the main fountain.
Description:
Marble doorstone (Waelkens 1986: 162, Typ C Akmonia 1). Twin door with four blank panels; pilasters with ivy-leaf pattern to left and right. Archivolt with three fascias; between the outermost two fascias, Lesbian cyma. Above, half-palmettes to left and right; flattened palmette at centre. In the field below the archivolt, a pickaxe and closed diptychon with strap, of identical design to that on Waelkens 1986: 164 nos. 405-6; 173, no. 434 (all Akmoneia). Inscription on the outer fascia and Lesbian cyma of the archivolt; the last two letters of line 1 on the abacus of the right-hand pilaster.
Dimensions:
Not recorded; letters 0.015-0.019 (line 1), 0.026-0.029 (line 2).
Record:
Squeeze; MB notebook copy (1956/43); CVC photograph.
Publication:
Ramsay, Phrygia II 610, no. 510.
Date:
AD 175-200 (doorstone type).
 
 

Κλ· Εὔνεικος ἑαυτῷ καὶ Δόμνῃ γ̣υναι|κὶ
μνήμης χάριν.
Cl(audius) Euneikos for himself and for his wife Domna, in memoriam.

Ramsay saw this monument at Kırka in 1883. In line 1, Ramsay read Κλεύνεικος, but the squeeze clearly shows an interpunct after ΚΛ. The inscription was still located in the main fountain at Kızılcasöğüt in September 2010.

Illustrations:

September 2010 photograph of MAMA XI 118: 1956-43: Kızılcasöğüt

September 2010 photograph of MAMA XI 118: 1956-43: Kızılcasöğüt

Ballance squeeze of MAMA XI 118: 1956-43: Kızılcasöğüt

Ballance squeeze of MAMA XI 118: 1956-43: Kızılcasöğüt