MAMA XI 205 (Axylon)

Funerary doorstone for Ba

Type of monument:

Funerary doorstone.

Location:

Çeşmelisebil (Axylon): in the yard of a house to the south of the höyük.

Description:

Doorstone, broken above. Twin door with plain panels; pilasters to left and right, arched pediment above. In upper right panel, key-plate; in upper left panel, door-knocker; lower panels blank. Inscription on the upper door-frame. Lower two-thirds of left pilaster plain; upper third fluted, with ionic capital. The left-hand side of the pediment rests on a bomos with plain upper and lower mouldings depicted in relief. Right-hand pilaster and moulding of right-hand side of pediment defaced. In the pediment, female portrait in relief (bust defaced); incised depictions of wool-basket (left), crescent moon and spindle and distaff (right).

Dimensions:

Ht. 1.32+; W. 0.67; Th. 0.24; letters 0.020-0.025.

Record:

WMC notebook copy; photograph (1954/44).

Publication:

None.

Date:

Roman imperial period.