MAMA XI 372 (Southern Lykaonia)

For funerary lion grave-covers in Lykaonia, Robert 1937: 394-7; Kubińska 1968: 61-3; I.Konya 191-4. The female figure with a wreath depicted in relief on the lion’s shoulder depicts the individual buried in the grave. Several other Lykaonian funerary lion grave-covers carry depictions of the deceased between the lion’s paws (cf. Buckler, Calder and Cox 1924: Plates III-IV); cf. SEG 6, 780 (between Artanada and Isaura, discussed by Robert 1937: 395-7), [οἱ ἀδελφοὶ ἀνέστησαν]... τὰς ἀδ[ελφὰς α]ὐτῶν τέσσαρας καὶ Μικίλου παῖδας τρεῖς καὶ Καβιριν Πιλλιος υἱὸν ἐν τῷ στήθει τοῦ λέοντος καὶ Ιμματιν θυγατέρα Μικιλου ὑποκάτω τοῦ λέοντος. The inscription associated with this grave-cover would thus presumably have read ὁ δεῖνα ἀνέστησε τὴν δεῖνα ἐν τῷ ὤμῳ τοῦ λέοντος. See also MAMA XI 369 (1957/80a: Losta [Akarköy]).