MAMA XI 215 (Axylon) 
Funerary doorstone for Babeis and Epossoris
- Type of monument:
- Funerary doorstone.
- Location:
- Sülüklü (Axylon): not recorded.
- Description:
- Limestone doorstone with triangular pediment. In the tympanum, crude depictions of woman (l.) and child (r.) in relief. On the shaft, a large recessed panel representing a door, with incised depictions of door-knocker (top left), lock-plate (top right), wool-basket (bottom left), spindle (bottom middle) and distaff (bottom right).
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.25; W. 0.60; Th. 0.35; letters 0.020-0.030.
- Record:
- WMC notebook copy; photograph (1954/39).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
Ουεγιαος Βαβειδι
γυναικὶ καὶ τέκνῳ
Εποσσοριδι μνήμης
χάριν.
Ouegiaos for Babeis his wife and his child Epossoris, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 215 (Axylon 15: 1954-39)
Detail of MAMA XI 215 (Axylon 15: 1954-39)
For the female name Βαβεις, see Zgusta 1964: 115-6 §133-15, and cf. MAMA XI 219 (1954/32: Yukarı Küçük Hasan); MAMA XI 323 (1956/174: Perta). The names Ουεγιαος (line 1) and *Εποσσορις (line 3) are unattested elsewhere; the reading seems certain in both cases. The monument is a very simple Waelkens Typ C doorstone (Waelkens 1986: 4-5), of a type highly characteristic of this region (Waelkens 1986: 230-49). For the depiction of door-knocker and lock-plate in a single plain panel, compare e.g. MAMA VII 406 (Waelkens 1986: 241-2, no. 620, Kerpiç); MAMA VII 499 (Waelkens 1986: 247-8, no. 639, Kelhasan).