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Funerary stele for Aur. Mariame

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Mernek (Karakaya) (Perta): on a dung-heap.
Description:
Coarse tapered marble stele, broken above and at bottom right. The inscription in a sunken panel with double moulding; below the inscription, incised cross with tendrils growing from its base.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.75+; W. 0.66+; Th. 0.33; letters 0.030-0.040.
Record:
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/140).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Third or fourth century AD.
 
 

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[καὶ (?) Αὐρ(ηλία) Σ]-
έμνη στ[ήσα]-
μεν τῇ γλυ-
κυτάτῃ ἡ-
5μῶν μητρὶ
Αὐρ(ηλίᾳ) hed. Μαρι-
άμῃ μνή-
μης χάριν.
...[and (?) Aur(elia) S]emne, we set (this up) for our sweetest mother Aur(elia) Mariame, in memoriam.

For the cross with tendrils incised at the base of the stele, see the commentary to MAMA XI 290 (1956/148: Hoydus/Akıncılar). The name Μαριάμη, a Hellenized transliteration of the Jewish personal name Miryam, is also attested in Lykaonia in MAMA VII 98 (Hacılar: Laodikeia) and MAMA VIII 127 (Laminger-Pascher 1992: 198-9, no. 325: Alkaran/Yenisu: Isauropolis); see further IJO II, p.490, n.30.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 334 (Perta 29: 1956-140)

MAMA XI 334 (Perta 29: 1956-140)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 334 (Perta 29: 1956-140)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 334 (Perta 29: 1956-140)