MAMA XI 291 (Northern Lykaonia)

Funerary inscription of Papas and Alexandros

Type of monument:: Funerary inscription.
Location:: Tekir Yaylası (Northern Lykaonia): in the steps of a house.
Description:: Coarse greyish-white marble block, complete.
Dimensions:: Ht. 0.88; W. 0.63; Th. 0.25; letters 0.040.
Record:: Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/149).
Publication:: None.
Date:: Third century AD.

Αὐρ(ηλία) Ἀππια
Παπαδι ἀνδ⟨ρὶ⟩
καὶ Ἀλεξάνδρ̣[ῳ]
ὑῷ γλυκυτάτοι̣[ς]
5μνήμη̣ς̣ χ̣άριν

Line 2: ΑΝΔΙΡ.

Aur(elia) Appia for her sweetest husband Papas and son Alexandros, in memoriam.

For the name Papas, see Zgusta 1964: 406-8, §1199-1; for the dative form Παπαδι, cf. MAMA I 54 (Kadınhanı); MAMA VIII 315 (Sadettin Hanı).

I have been unable to establish the location of Tekir Yaylası (described by Ballance in his notebook as a ‘deserted village’). On the basis of the sequence of sites visited by Ballance in this region in 1956, it ought to lie in the steppe north of Altınekin, between Hoydus/Akıncılar and Maydos. In the cemetery of this village, Ballance also saw two architectural members, apparently both from a Late Antique church:

(1) Upper part of rectangular pier with integral capital. Ht. 0.36 (capital), -- (shaft); W. 0.70 (capital), 0.62 (shaft); Th. 0.36 (capital), 0.31 (shaft). MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/148a).

(2) Fragment of door lintel, buried below. Ht. 0.67; W. 0.76+; Th. --. MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/148b).