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Funerary doorstone for Nana

Type of monument:
Funerary doorstone.
Location:
Yukarıaliçomak (Axylon): not recorded.
Description:
Doorstone, buried below. Single door with gabled pediment, acroteria and leaves above. In the panels, door-knocker (top left), lock-plate (top right), basket (bottom left), bunch of grapes (bottom right). On the left-hand border, spindle and distaff; on the right-hand border, cymbals (?) and brush (?).
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.80+; W. 0.65; Th. 0.26; letters 0.025-0.035.
Record:
WMC notebook copy (1954/37).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Second or third century AD.
 
 

Πάμφιλος γυναικὶ Να-
νᾳ μνήμης ἕνεκεν.
Pamphilos for his wife Nana, in memoriam.

For the objects depicted in relief on the right-hand border, see the commentary to MAMA XI 220 (1954/36). For the name Nana, see MAMA XI 209 (1954/73: Azak [Hodoğlu]).

Illustrations:

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 221 (Axylon 21: 1954-37)

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 221 (Axylon 21: 1954-37)