MAMA XI 212 (Axylon) 
Funerary stele for Io
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Zengen (Özkent) (Axylon): not recorded.
- Description:
- Limestone stele, complete. Vaulted pediment with male figure in toga (l.) and veiled female figure in stola (r.) in relief; to the right of the female figure, wool-basket in relief. Inscription in recessed strip down centre of shaft.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.03; W. 0.62; Th. 0.30; letters 0.020-0.030.
- Record:
- WMC notebook copy; photograph (1954/71).
- Publication:
- W. M. Calder, MAMA VII xxvi-xxvii (b) (text only).
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
Πούβλιος
Κρασίκιος
Ῥοῦφος ἰδίᾳ
Ιω γυναικὶ
5μνήμης χά|ριν.
Publius Crassicius Rufus for his own wife Io, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 2012 (Axylon 12: 1954-71)
Text of MAMA XI 2012 (Axylon 12: 1954-71)
The gentilician Crassicius is very rare in the Greek east. The name was held by a member of a collegium on Delos in 113 BC, probably a native of Cora in Latium (Wiseman 1985); otherwise the only holders of the name in the east known to me are Crispa Crassicia and her freedwoman Tertia at Prusa in Bithynia (I.Prusa 101). Mitchell 1993: I 153-4 suggests (following Calder, MAMA VII xxvii) that Crassicius Rufus and a local family of Marii (MAMA XI 213 [1954/70]) might owe their Roman citizenship to large Roman landowners in the region.
For the name Io, see the commentary to MAMA XI 203 (1954/46). The word order here is odd, but I do not find plausible the suggestion of Laminger-Pascher 1984: 102, no.165, that Rufus’ wife’s name was *Ιδιαιω.