MAMA XI 229 (Kinna) 
Funerary stele for Romula
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Kulu (Kinna): in a garden, in a pile of building-stones said to have been brought from Yaraşlı (with MAMA XI 228 [1957/8]).
- Description:
- Tapered trachyte stele, with round projection above, incised with an equilateral maltese cross; back rough. Inscription in sunken panel.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.83; W. 0.32; Th. 0.20; letters 0.040.
- Record:
- Squeeze; AH notebook copy; photograph (1957/10=5701).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Third or fourth century AD.
Αὐρί-
λιος Ἀ-
νίκ[ητ]-
ος Γ̣α̣ΐ̣-
5ο̣υ̣ (?) ἀν-
έστισε [ἰ]-
δ̣ί̣ᾳ̣ σ̣ι̣ν̣-
βίου Ῥ-
ωμύ̣λ̣ῃ̣ (?)
10χάριν
μνήμης
†
Aurelius Aniketos, son of Gaius (?), set this up for his own wife Romula (?), in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 229 (Kinna 8: 1957-10)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 229 (Kinna 8: 1957-10)
The face of the stone is extremely worn and difficult to read; the name Ἀνίκ[ητ]ος in lines 2-4 is certain (cf. MAMA XI 242 [1957/31]: Altılar), but I have no great confidence in my readings Γ̣α̣ί̣ο̣υ̣ (lines 4-5) or Ῥωμ̣ύ̣λ̣ῃ̣ (lines 8-9).