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Funerary stele for Palladia

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Yaraşlı (Kinna): in a yard at the north end of the village.
Description:
Local grey trachyte stele, broken above, back rough. At top, remains of a moulded circular projection (cf. MAMA XI 229 (1957/10)
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.92+; W. 0.47; Th. 0.25; letters 0.030-0.040.
Record:
MB notebook copy; squeeze; photograph (1957/21=5711).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Fourth or fifth century AD.
 
 

Αὐ(ρήλιος) Θεόδου-
λος ἀνέστη-
σεν τῇ σ⟨υ⟩ν-
βίῳ γλυχιτ-
5άτῃ Παλλα-
δίῃ μνήμ-
ης χάριν.
Line 3: ΣΓΝ lapis.
Au(relius) Theodoulos set this up for his sweetest wife Palladia, in memoriam.

For the name Theodoulos, cf. MAMA XI 240 (1957/25), also from Yaraşlı. For the name Palladia, cf. I.Smyrna 565. For the spelling γλυχιτάτῃ in lines 4-5, cf. MAMA XI 239 (1957/24), also from Yaraşlı.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 237 (Kinna 16: 1957-21)

MAMA XI 237 (Kinna 16: 1957-21)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 237 (Kinna 16: 1957-21)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 237 (Kinna 16: 1957-21)