MAMA XI 168 (Kidyessos) 
Building inscription
- Type of monument:
- Building inscription.
- Location:
- Çobanözü (Kidyessos): in the wall of the mosque.
- Description:
- Yellowish sandstone block, broken right. Inscription at top; below, incised depiction of a circle in a double lozenge, all within a rectangle.
- Dimensions:
- Not recorded.
- Record:
- Drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/9).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Sixth century AD.
ἐγένετο τὸ ἔργον ἐπ̣[ὶ - -]
The work was completed whe[n...
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 168 (Kidyessos 9: 1956-9)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 168 (Kidyessos 9: 1956-9)
It is possible that this building inscription refers to the same monument as MAMA XI 167 (1956/8). If the incised design on the stone was precisely symmetrical, there would only be space for a further 5-6 letters at the end of the inscription, which seems insufficient for a name and office (‘when so-and-so was bishop/deacon/abbot...’). It therefore seems probable that only a little under half the original width of the stone is preserved. For a fully-preserved plaque with circle-in-lozenge-in-rectangle occupying the left-hand half only, see Büyükkolancı 2008: 75 (Ephesos, XI AD).