MAMA XI 374 (Southern Lykaonia) 
Funerary inscription of Sornatius
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription.
- Location:
- Aşıran Yaylası (Ekinözü) (Southern Lykaonia): in a well belonging to Tahir Atçeken.
- Description:
- Limestone block, broken left.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.35; W. 1.00+; Th. --; letters 0.030-0.035.
- Record:
- MB notebook copy; photographs (1957/70=5847-8).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
[- - - - - -]εισου θυγάτηρ
[- - - - - Σ]ωρνατίῳ τῷ ἑατῆς
[ἀνδρὶ καὶ ἑα]τῇ ζώσῃ ἐπόησε
[ vac. τὸ] μνῆμα crescent.
...daughter of ...eisos made the memorial for ...[S]ornatius, her [husband], and for herself, while still living.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 374 (Southern Lykaonia 6: 1957-70)
MAMA XI 374 (Southern Lykaonia 6: 1957-70)
The nomen Sornatius is exceptionally rare (Syme, RP II 601-2). In the Greek East, it is otherwise only attested at Akmoneia, where a statarion was set up in the late 70s or early 60s BC by C. Sornatius C.f. Barba of Picenum, legate of Lucullus (MAMA VI 260, with Thonemann 2010: 172-3). Most likely our Sornatius was an Italian immigrant or the freedman of a senatorial landowner in the region (cf. MAMA XI 378 [1957/65: Anbar]). For the crescent moon at the end of the inscription, cf. MAMA XI 382 (1957/59: Karamankırı [Güvercinlik]); MAMA XI 354 (1956/188: Savatra).
Aşıran Yaylası (modern Ekinözü) lies very close to Kerti Höyük, the likely site of Derbe (Ballance 1957; Ballance 1964: 139-40; Laminger-Pascher 1992: 61-6; TIB Galatien 157, s.v. Derbē).