MAMA XI 249 (Kinna)

This stone was previously copied at Canımana by W. M. Calder in 1910, whence it was published in I. W. Macpherson’s 1958 Cambridge PhD thesis, New Evidence for the Historical Geography of Galatia (non uidi), p.159, and subsequently by S. Mitchell in RECAM II (from Macpherson’s text). By 1957, the stone had been built into the foundations of the mosque at Canımana, and Ballance was only able to read the upper two lines. In most respects, Ballance’s photograph and squeeze confirm Calder’s readings; at the start of line 1, Α̣ΡΚ̣ΗΝΩΝ seems to be a more likely reading than Α̣ΡΕ̣ΗΝΩΝ. For a hypothetical village community (ὁ) *Αρκηνῶν δῆμος, cf. MAMA IV 251 (Tymandos), [Ἀ]ρτέμων Διοδώρου Ἀρκηνός.

In RECAM II, Mitchell translated lines 3-4 ‘Asklepios Polykrates son of Karios Dionysios (was responsible)’. However, double names of this kind are relatively unusual in inner Anatolia, and it is probably better to assume that the two names in the genitive in line 4 should each be taken with the name in the nominative that stands immediately above them in line 3, i.e. Ἀσκληπιὸς Καρίου / Πολυκράτης Διονυσίου. This interpretation receives strong confirmation from MAMA XI 248 (1957/15), a second votive bomos to Zeus Megistos from the village of Canımana. MAMA XI 248 was set up by a certain [Κά]ρπος Μανου, either ‘for’, ‘with’ or ‘on behalf of’ his son Asklepios. A personal name *Κάριος, read by Calder in line 4 of our inscription, would be unparalleled anywhere else in the Greek world, and it is highly tempting to assume that the same Asklepios son of Karpos is being referred to in both texts. I have therefore corrected Calder’s reading in line 4 to Κάρ⟨π⟩ου.