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