MAMA XI 243 (Kinna) 
Funerary stele for Rufus the presbyter
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Altılar (Kinna): in a cemetery to the south of the village.
- Description:
- Grey trachyte stele, broken above and below. Inscription in sunken panel on shaft.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.80+; W. 0.53; Th. 0.27; letters 0.040-0.050.
- Record:
- MB notebook copy; photograph (1957/29=5740).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Fourth or fifth century AD.
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τ̣ι̣ος κὲ̣
Ἀλέξα-
δρος ἀν-
έσθησα-
5ν τῷ εἰδί-
ῳ πατρεὶ
Ῥούπου
πρεσβι-
τέρου κ-
10άριν μν-
ῆς.
...tios and Alexandros set this up for their own father Rufus the presbyter, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 243 (Kinna 22: 1957-29)
I assume that the sequence ΡΟΥΠΟΥ in line 7 represents the Latin name Rufus, with a characteristically Phrygian pi/phi hesitation (Brixhe 1987: 110-13). For the double misspelling κάριν μνῆς (lines 9-11), cf. MAMA I 181 (Sarayönü); MAMA VII 238 (Turgut).