MAMA XI 337 (Perta)
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.
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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.