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Funerary stele of Aurelius Eutychos and Thekla

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Nevine (Bahçesaray) [Laodikeia]: not recorded.
Description:
Rough grey marble stele, possibly broken above. Inscription in panel; above, labarum (chi-rho monogram, the chi consisting simply of a horizontal line across the upright stroke of the rho; the upright stroke of the rho terminates in a cursive omega).
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.88+; W. 0.80; Th. 0.40; letters 0.040-0.050.
Record:
Squeeze; AH notebook copy (1957/82).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Fourth century AD.
 
 

α̣ ☧ ω
Αὐρήλιος
Εὔτυχος
Παύλου ἀν-
5έστησα σ-
ὺν τῇ γλυ-
κυτάτῃ συν-
βίου Θέκλης
κὲ ἐμαυτῷ ζ-
10ῶν μνήμης χάριν.
I, Aurelius Eutychos, son of Paulus, set this up along with my sweetest wife Thekla, and for myself, while still living, in memoriam.

The phraseology of this inscription is somewhat awkward; the author seems to have hesitated between setting up the stele ‘for’ and ‘with’ his wife Thekla.

Illustrations:

Squeeze of MAMA XI 272 (Laodikeia 19: 1957-82)

Squeeze of christogram in l. 1 of MAMA XI 272 (Laodikeia 19: 1957-82)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 272 (Laodikeia 19: 1957-82)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 272 (Laodikeia 19: 1957-82)