MAMA XI 220 (Axylon) 
Funerary doorstone for Attas and wife
- Type of monument:
- Funerary doorstone.
- Location:
- Yukarıaliçomak (Axylon): not recorded.
- Description:
- Doorstone with two doors, broken below and right; only the upper pair of panels of each door are visible. In the upper left panel of the left-hand door, a door-knocker; in the upper right panel, a key-plate. Above each door, incised pediment with half-palmette corner acroteria and plain central acroterion. To the left of the left-hand door, incised comb (top left), spindle and distaff (top right), cymbals (?) (centre left), brush (?) (centre right), wool-basket (below). Above, plain incised gabled pediment; inscription in a single line on plain moulding below.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.10+; W. 1.67+; Th. 0.15; letters 0.025-0.035.
- Record:
- Partial squeeze; WMC notebook copy; photograph (1954/36).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Second or third century AD.
Γάϊος καὶ Παπας πατρὶ Αττᾳ καὶ μητρὶ ΚΛΙ̣ΛΛΑ μνήμης [χάριν].
Gaius and Papas for their father Attas and their mother... in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 220 (Axylon 20: 1954-36)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 220 (Axylon 20: 1954-36)
The name of Attas’ wife is not certain: we could read either Κα̣⟨τ⟩ίλλᾳ (cf. MAMA VIII 318: Sadettin Hanı) or Κ⟨υρ⟩ίλλᾳ (a very common name in this region). I am unable to identify the two objects depicted in the centre of the left-hand side of the stone (both of which are also depicted on MAMA XI 221 [1954/37]). The object on the right may be a brush (?); the object on the left (two circles connected by a straight line) may be a pair of cymbals or a rattle (cf. Waelkens 1986: 291, no. 752: Pessinous), or perhaps simply a mirror with round handle (cf. Herrmann and Malay 2007: Pl. 16, no. 30: SW of Thyateira).