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Funerary stele for Kalliope

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Çeşmelisebil (Axylon): not recorded; next to MAMA XI 204 (1954/48).
Description:
Limestone stele, buried below. Vaulted pediment with male figure in toga (l.) and veiled female figure in stola (r.) in relief, right arm crossed across chest, left arm across waist. At left, unidentified incised object; at right, object in relief, probably wool-basket (see the commentary to MAMA XI 204 [1954/48]). Plain corner acroteria to left and right; above the pediment, incised circle. Plain pilasters to left and right of shaft, with stylised capitals.
Dimensions:
Ht. 1.50+; W. 0.46 (pediment), 0.45 (shaft), 0.47 (base); Th. --; letters 0.020-0.025.
Record:
WMC notebook copy; photograph (1954/47).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Roman imperial period.
 
 

Πολεμαῖος
Παπα γυνεκὶ
Καλλιόπῃ μ-
νή.
Polemaios son of Papas for his wife Kalliope, in memoriam.

The inscription may have been left unfinished (μνή⟨μης χάριν⟩), or may have been intended to finish with μνή (i.e. μνήμη, as in the common μνῆς χάριν). The monument was still visible behind the Belediye at Çeşmelisebil in April 2011.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 202 (Axylon 2: 1954-47)

MAMA XI 202 (Axylon 2: 1954-47)

MAMA XI 202 (Axylon 2: 1954-47)

MAMA XI 202 (Axylon 2: 1954-47)

April 2011 photograph of MAMA XI 202 (Axylon 2: 1954-47)

April 2011 photograph of MAMA XI 202 (Axylon 2: 1954-47)