MAMA XI 252 (Kinna) 
Funerary stele of Asklepios and family
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Canımana (Kinna): in a fountain.
- Description:
- Grey limestone stele, apparently complete; left side underwater. Arched pediment above, with four busts in relief, each with their right hand resting on the chest. On the shaft, inset panel framed with decorative moulding. Line 1 of inscription on frame above the panel; lines 2-4 in the panel.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.53; W. c. 0.80 (pediment), c. 0.72 (shaft), c. 0.80 (base); Th. 0.44; letters --.
- Record:
- Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photographs (1957/38=5752-3).
- Publication:
- S. Mitchell, RECAM II 299 (text only, from a 1910 copy by W. M. Calder).
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
Ἀσκληπιὸς κὲ Κειρίλλα Μομιου ζῶντε⟨ς⟩ κὲ
προνοῦντες ἔστησαν ἑα-
τῆς κὲ ὑοῖς Αππᾳ κὲ Πωλί-
ωνι μνήμης κάρ̣ιν.
Line 1: ζῶντες C.
Line 4: χάριν C.
Asklepios and Kyrilla, daughter of Momios, while still living and in their right minds, set this up for themselves and their children Appas and Pollio, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 252 (Kinna 31: 1957-38)
MAMA XI 252 (Kinna 31: 1957-38)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 252 (Kinna 31: 1957-38)
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.160, and subsequently by S. Mitchell in RECAM II (from Macpherson’s text). For the name Asklepios, see the commentary to MAMA XI 248 (1957/15: Canımana). I assume that the name Κειρίλλα in line 1 is an orthographic variant of the common name Κυρίλλα. It is not clear whether the name Μομιου (gen.) represents the Latin gentilician Mummius (thus Mitchell, RECAM II 299) or an indigenous name from the same root as the common Galatian name Μομμων (RECAM II 288; Zgusta 1964: 329 §953-3). For the orthography Πωλίωνι (lines 3-4), cf. MAMA XI 100 (1955/97: Akmoneia).
Mitchell gives the alarming translation ‘Asklepios and Keirilla, children of Momios... for their sons Appas and Polion’.