MAMA XI 262 (Laodikeia) 
Funerary stele of Mountanos and Mouna
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Nevine (Bahçesaray) (Laodikeia): in a garden, supposedly newly dug up.
- Description:
- White marble stele, broken above. Vaulted pediment, almost entirely missing, with full-length figures in relief, male at left, female in ankle-length pallia at right. To the right, wool-basket in relief. On the shaft, pilasters to left and right, each with stylised capitals. Between the capitals, three incised ovals, perhaps a crude egg-and-dart design.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.76+; W. 0.57+ (pediment), 0.55 (shaft); Th. 0.33 (pediment), 0.28 (shaft); letters 0.040.
- Record:
- Squeeze; MB notebook copy; photograph (1957/102=5922).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
Μᾶρκος καὶ
Αἰμιλιανὸς
Μουνταν|ῷ
πατρὶ καὶ
5Μουνᾳ μη-
τρὶ ζώσῃ
μνήμης
χάριν.
Marcus and Aemilianus for Mountanos their father and Mouna their mother, while she was still living, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 262 (Laodikeia 9: 1957-102)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 262 (Laodikeia 9: 1957-102)
The stele is stylistically extremely similar to MAMA XI 261 (1957/83), also from Nevine [Bahçesaray]; the two monuments are clearly products of the same workshop. It is striking that the family commemorated on this stele shared two names in common with the family commemorated on MAMA XI 261, Μᾶρκος and Μο(υ)ντανός; one wonders if we might be dealing with three generations of the same family. For the indigenous personal name Μουνα, characteristic of the whole western part of the plateau, see Zgusta 1964: 336 §983-1. For the egg-and-dart design, cf. MAMA XI 264 (1957/103: Ladık).