MAMA XI 353 (Savatra) 
Funerary stele of Koula
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Akörenkışla (Savatra): not recorded.
- Description:
- Stele with gabled pediment, corner acroteria and pilasters to left and right. In the pediment, six-pointed rosette. On the shaft, a defaced relief, with cross cut into it at later date.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.00; W. 0.41 (pediment), 0.38 (shaft), 0.43 (base); Th. 0.19; letters 0.020-0.025.
- Record:
- Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy (1956/187).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Third century AD.
Αὐρή(λιοι) · Νανους
καὶ Σέλευκος · ἀνέσστη-
σαν τῇ ἀδελφῇ
Κουλᾳ μνήμης ἕνεκε[ν].
Aure(lii) Nanous and Seleukos set this up for their sister Koula, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
Squeeze of MAMA XI 353 (Savatra 11: 1956-187)
Line drawing of MAMA XI 353 (Savatra 11: 1956-187)
For the name Seleukos in this region, see the commentary to MAMA XI 309 (1956/169). The name Νανους is twice attested at Athens for natives of a city called Herakleia (probably in Pontos): Agora XVII 519 (IV BC); IG II2 8736 (Roman imperial period); cf. Robert 1963: 289 n.5 (names in -ους). The name presumably belongs to the large group of Lallnamen in Ναν(ν)- (Zgusta 1964: 346-54 §1013-1-45). The female name Κουλα is also very rare: it is twice attested in Isauria (Callander 1906: 168, no. 42; Sterrett 1888b: 93, no. 155, corrected by Hereward 1958: 68), once at Kappadokian Komana (Harper 1969: 28, no. 5.50 [BE 1971, 668]: read Κουλα Μᾳ τῇ μητρὶ καὶ Χρη̣[σ]τ̣ῇ τροφ̣[ῷ μ]ν̣ήμη̣[ς χάριν]; for τροφός = nurse, cf. MAMA XI 354 [1956/188]), once in Paphlagonia (Marek 1993: 205, no. 73, Kaisareia-Hadrianopolis), and once at Pontic Amaseia (Anderson, Cumont and Grégoire 1910: 142-3, no. 123: Κουλλα). Compare also the male name Κουλας, attested at Isauropolis (Laminger-Pascher 1992: 194, no. 314, Yenisu/Alkaran), and perhaps at Laodikeia Katakekaumene (MAMA VII 63: Κουλου [dat.], Kındıras).