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Funerary stele for Mouna

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Zengen (Özkent) (Axylon): in the course of being dug up on the south edge of the village.
Description:
Plain stele, broken below, buried above. Inscription in slightly recessed panel.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.48+; W. 0.45; Th. 0.24; letters 0.030-0.040.
Record:
MB notebook copy (1954/72).
Publication:
W. M. Calder, MAMA VII xxvii (c) (text only).
Date:
Roman imperial period.
 
 

Αὐρ(ήλιος) Μεῖρος
Μανου Μου-
νᾳ γυνεκὶ
γ⟨λ⟩υκ⟨υ⟩τάτῃ
5μνήμης
χάριν.
Line 4: ΓΑΥΚΟΤΑΤΗ lapis.
Aur(elius) Meiros, son of Manes, for his sweetest wife Mouna, in memoriam.

The indigenous female name Mouna is very common in Galatia, Lykaonia and eastern Phrygia: see Zgusta 1964: 336 §983-1.

Illustrations:

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 214 (Axylon 14: 1954-72)

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 214 (Axylon 14: 1954-72)