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Funerary stele for Diomedes

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Karakilise (Karacaören) (Kinna): in a house wall.
Description:
Limestone stele, broken above. Inscription in inset panel with plain moulding.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.55+; W. 0.43; Th. --; letters 0.020-0.030.
Record:
MB notebook copy; photographs (1957/39=5758).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Roman imperial period.
 
 

[.]Ο̣.Ι̣Ι̣Ε̣[- -]
Η καὶ Διομήδῃ
υἱῷ μου
ἀνέστησεν
5μνήμ̣ης κά̣ριν.
...set this up for... and my son Diomedes, in memoriam.

The eta at the start of line 2 is presumably the end of a woman’s name in the dative.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 247 (Kinna 26: 1957-39)

MAMA XI 247 (Kinna 26: 1957-39)