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Funerary stele of Urbana and Prisca

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Karakilise (Karacaören) (Kinna): in the steps of a house near the fountain.
Description:
Grey limestone stele, broken above. Vaulted pediment above, with corner acroteria and round boss in relief; on the shaft, inset panel with plain moulding.
Dimensions:
Not recorded.
Record:
MB notebook copy; photographs (1957/38a=5756-7).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Roman imperial period.
 
 

Οὐρβᾶνα{να} τῇ
ἑαυτῆς θυγα-
τρὶ Πρείσκῃ
γλυκυτάτῃ ἀ-
5νέστησεν
μνήμης χά-
ριν.
Urbana set this up for her own sweetest daughter Prisca, in memoriam.

For the name Urbana in this region, cf. MAMA XI 245 (1957/16: half an hour to the south of Karakilise).

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 246 (Kinna 25: 1957-38a)

MAMA XI 246 (Kinna 25: 1957-38a)