MAMA XI 235 (Kinna) 
Funerary stele for Attas and Manes
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Yaraşlı (Kinna): in a wall of a house of the north side of the village (with MAMA XI 234 [1957/12]).
- Description:
- Grey limestone stele, broken above. Pediment almost entirely missing; lines 1-2 of inscription on upper moulding, line 3 in sunken panel on shaft. Panel with four stepped fillets above and below, single fillet at left and right; plain pilasters to left and right. On the lower part of the panel, incised depictions of animal-legged tripod table with one-handled skyphos resting on top, billhook, sickle, plough and spade.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.22+; W. 0.58; Th. --; letters 0.020.
- Record:
- AH notebook copy; photographs (1957/13=5709-10).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Third century AD.
Α̣ὐρ(ήλιος) Μεῖρος ἰδίων τέκνω[ν]
Α̣ττᾳ καὶ Μανῃ ἀνέστησ̣[ε]ν μνη-
μόσυνον.
Aur(elius) Meiros set up this memorial for his own sons Attas and Manes.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 235 (Kinna 14: 1957-13)
MAMA XI 235 (Kinna 14: 1957-13)
For the use of the term μνημόσυνον in this context (in place of the normal μνήμης χάριν), cf. RECAM II 408 (Şerefli Koçhisar), Κλαυδία Μουνεως [ἰ]δίᾳ ἀνδρὶ Ἑρενίῳ Πωλίωνι μν⟨η⟩μόσυν[ο]ν. For the incised depiction of an animal-legged tripod table and one-handled skyphos, see the commentary to MAMA XI 233 (1957/26: Yalınayak [Karacadağ]).