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Prayer to God for help of majordomo Theodoros

Type of monument:
Prayer to God for help.
Location:
Akçaşar (Kidyessos): in a lane.
Description:
Double half-column in local conglomerate, broken above and right.
Dimensions:
Ht. 1.20+; W. 0.60+; Th. 0.22; letters 0.040-0.070.
Record:
Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/15).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Fifth or sixth century AD.
 
 

[† κύριε]
[μνήσθητι]
[Θεωδ]όρου
τοῦ γράψαν-
τος   vac.  
† κύριε βο-
ήθι τῷ
5προύκο
Θεωδόρῳ
  vac.  
[Lord, be mindful of Theod]oros, who wrote this. Lord, save the majordomo Theodoros.

For the term πρόοικος, ‘majordomo, household manager’ (line 6: προύκο, i.e. προοίκῳ), see Robert, Hellenica XIII, 105-6; Drew-Bear 1978: 93-4, no. 29 (Eumeneia).

Illustrations:

Squeeze of MAMA XI 170 (Kidyessos 11: 1956-15)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 170 (Kidyessos 11: 1956-15)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 170 (Kidyessos 11: 1956-15)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 170 (Kidyessos 11: 1956-15)