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Funerary stele of Zoe, holy virgin

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Koçaş (Perta): in the wall of a house.
Description:
Crude white marble stele with roughly pointed top.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.72; W. 0.24; Th. --; letters 0.025-0.035.
Record:
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/164).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Fourth to sixth century AD.
 
 


Ζώη
παρθένος
ἁγνή.
Zoe, a holy virgin.

For ‘holy virgins’ in this region, see also MAMA XI 292 (1956/151: Maydos). Cf. IG XIV 187 (Syracuse), the epitaph of the nuns Photine and Philoumene, who are described as σεμνὲ ἁγνὲ παρθένοι.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 337 (Perta 32: 1956-164)

MAMA XI 337 (Perta 32: 1956-164)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 337 (Perta 32: 1956-164)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 337 (Perta 32: 1956-164)