MAMA XI 210 (Axylon)
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.