MAMA XI 378 (Southern Lykaonia)

The name of the deceased in line 1 could either be [Νέσ]τορα or [Κάσ]τορα, both of which were common in Lykaonia; see the commentary to MAMA XI 327 (1956/183: Perta). He acted as estate-manager (οἰκονόμος, vilicus; cf. MAMA XI 48 [1956/56]) of a woman whose name I have restored as Λα̣[ι]ν̣ίλλης, Laenilla; the alpha and nu are effectively certain, and I can find no other Roman name of the form La[.1-2.]nilla. The name Laenilla is rare; a senatorial woman by the name of Mummia Laenilla with land-holdings near Brundisium is attested in the late second century AD (Andermahr 1998: 346-7; PIR² M 713).

This inscription provides our first evidence for the existence of senatorial estates in south-east Lykaonia. For the geographical distribution of large private estates in the western part of the plateau, see Mitchell 1993: I 149-58.

The toponym Αδρανδῳ (line 2) appears to be unattested elsewhere, but its formation has close parallels in this part of Asia Minor; compare the place-names Λάρανδα (modern Karaman) and *Καρανδα at an uncertain location in Phrygia Paroreios (so I infer from the personal name Karantenos, carried by a Byzantine family known to have had interests near Philomelion in the early eleventh century: MAMA VII 190, with Cheynet 1990: 223 n.129). The alleged toponym *Αρανδα in Kappadokia (SEG 19, 874) has now been abolished by a re-reading of the relevant inscription (SEG 29, 1531). For the element Αδρ-, cf. Αδρασσός in Isauria (Zgusta 1984: 47).