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Funerary stele for Miros

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Azak (Hodoğlu) (Axylon): not recorded.
Description:
Marble stele, broken above and below. Inscription in recessed panel with mouldings to right and left. Below the inscription, two lightly incised hour-glass figures.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.70+; W. 0.43; Th. 0.17; letters 0.020-0.035.
Record:
WMC notebook copy; photograph (1954/74).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Third century AD.
 
 

Αὐ·ρ·
Εἰρηνικὸς
τῷ γλυκυτά-
τῳ ὑειῷ Μίρ-
5ῳ ἀνέστησα
μνήμης
χάριν
I, Aur(elius) Eirenikos, set this up for my sweetest son Miros, in memoriam.

The name Eirenikos is not common: cf. TAM V 1, 384 (Kollyda); MAMA III 323b, 469 (Korykos); I.Perinthos 227.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 2010 (Axylon 10: 1954-74)

MAMA XI 2010 (Axylon 10: 1954-74)