MAMA XI 325 (Perta)
Funerary inscription in verse
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription in verse.
- Location:
- Mernek (Karakaya) (Perta): in a house wall.
- Description:
- Fragment of coarse grey-brown marble, broken below, right, and probably above.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.42+; W. 0.39+; Th. --; letters 0.030-0.040.
- Record:
- Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/143).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
τύνβος [ὅδ᾿ - - -]
ὑπένερ[θε - - - -]
καλὸν [- - - - - -]
ΑΧΟΥΣΕ[- - - - -]
5ΛΥΧ̣[- - - - - - - -]
Π̣Α̣Υ̣[- - - - - - - -]
This tomb... underneath... fair...
Line 1 apparently represents the beginning of the inscription; cf. Cronin 1902: 360, no. 121 (Sadettin Hanı), which begins τύμβος ὅδ᾿ ἐν χθονίῃ κατ[έχει πο]λὺ φίλτατον ἄνδρα.