MAMA XI 250 (Kinna) 
Funerary stele for Kronos
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Canımana (Kinna): in the wall of a house.
- Description:
- Grey limestone stele, broken above. On the shaft, inset panel framed with Lesbian cyma; in the panel, incised depictions of (top) wool-basket resting on a chest with lock-plate, mirror, oinochoe (?) and skyphos on an animal-legged tripod table; (middle) spindle and distaff; (below) ox-team yoked to a plough. Lines 1-2 of inscription on frame, lines 3-4 in panel.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.96+; W. 0.59; Th. 0.38; letters 0.025.
- Record:
- MB notebook copy; photographs (1957/32=5744).
- Publication:
- S. Mitchell, RECAM II 301 (text only, from a 1910 copy by W. M. Calder).
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
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[- - - - - - -]. Ο̣. .Ι γ̣[υναι]-
κὶ καὶ Κρόνῳ υἱῷ ἀνέ[στη]-
σεν μνήμης
χάριν.
Line 1: om. C(alder).
Lines 2-3: ἀνέ[στησ]|εν C.
[for... his wi]fe and Kronos his son, he set this up, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 250 (Kinna 29: 1957-32)
MAMA XI 250 (Kinna 29: 1957-32)
For the decoration on the stele, see the commentary to MAMA XI 233 (1957/26: Yalınayak [Karacadağ]). The 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.161, and subsequently by S. Mitchell in RECAM II (from Macpherson’s text).