MAMA XI 150 (Pentapolis) 
Funerary inscription of Claudia Asia and family
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription.
- Location:
- Başkuyucak (Pentapolis): in a fountain.
- Description:
- Double half-column of veined grey marble, cut off above.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.97+; W. 0.37; Th. 0.26; letters 0.022-0.030.
- Record:
- Drawing; MB notebook copy; photographs (1955/45).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Third or fourth century AD.
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Κ̅λ̅(αυδία) · Ἀσία ·
Κ̅λ̅(αυδίῳ) · Φιλήτῳ
Κ̅λ̅(αυδίῳ) Φιλοκά-
5λῳ καὶ Αὐ(ρηλίᾳ)
Ἀσίᾳ μνή-
μης χάριν·
ἐ̣ὰν δέ τις
ἕτερον
10θήσει, ἔσ-
ται αὐτῷ
πρὸς τὸν
Θεόν.
Cl(audia) Asia (constructed this tomb) for Cl(audius) Philetos, Cl(audius) Philokalos and Au(relia) Asia, in memoriam. If anyone inters another, he shall have to reckon with God.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 150 (Pentapolis 18: 1955-45)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 150 (Pentapolis 18: 1955-45)
Ἀσία was used as a slave name in the Classical and Hellenistic periods (Masson, OGS I 151; Bechtel 1902: 59), but became common among women of all classes in Roman Asia Minor. The relationship between the text and the monument on which it is inscribed is unclear. The Eumeneian formula in lines 10-13 (cf. MAMA XI 36 (1954/14)) suggests a date in the late third or early fourth century AD, whereas the double half-column is typical of early Byzantine architecture (Niewöhner 2007: 177-9). There is, however, no sign that the stone has been re-cut. For an inscription from the Tabai plateau in Caria, reused to carve a Byzantine double half-column, see MAMA VI 161 (Robert and Robert 1954: 152, no. 38; I.Denizli 217); for an example from Yalınayak (Karacadağ) in Galatia, see MAMA XI 232 (1957/27).