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Funerary inscription of Ioannes

Type of monument:
Funerary inscription.
Location:
Yağlıbayat (Savatra): in a house, said to have been removed from a well in the valley behind the village.
Description:
Grey marble cornice, probably from a statue-base, with egg-and-dart moulding on front, left and right; cut off behind. Subsequently re-used as a funerary monument; inscription on the bottom surface.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.17; W. 0.47 (upper moulding), 0.35 (lower moulding); Th. 0.27+ (upper moulding), 0.19+ (lower moulding); letters 0.012-0.035.
Record:
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/197).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Cornice: Roman imperial period; inscription: Fourth to sixth century AD.
 
 

τῷ γλυκυ-
τάτῳ υεἱ-
ῷ Εἰωάνῃ
ἡ μητὴρ
5Ματώρνα
μνήμη{η}ς
χάριν.
For her sweetest son Ioannes, his mother Matrona, in memoriam.

Ματώρνα in line 5 is presumably an error for Ματρώνα, for which compare MAMA XI 331 (1956/179: Perta); 217 (1954/35: Yunak).

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 352 (Savatra 10: 1956-197)

MAMA XI 352 (Savatra 10: 1956-197)

Reused marble cornice on MAMA XI 352 (Savatra 10: 1956-197)

Reused marble cornice on MAMA XI 352 (Savatra 10: 1956-197)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 352 (Savatra 10: 1956-197)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 352 (Savatra 10: 1956-197)