MAMA XI 379 (Southern Lykaonia) 
Funerary inscription of Aetios and Eumathia
- Type of monument:
- Funerary stele.
- Location:
- Anbar (Southern Lykaonia): in a lane.
- Description:
- Blue marble stele with arched pediment. In the pediment, cross in circle; on the upper part of the shaft, inscription in tabula ansata, below, inset panel containing large cross in relief.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.39; W. 0.64; Th. 0.15; letters 0.020-0.030.
- Record:
- Partial squeeze; MB notebook copy; photograph (1957/64=5838).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Fifth or sixth century AD.
† μνήμη
νηοφοτίσ-
των Ἀετίου
καὶ Εὐμαθίας
Memorial of Aetios and Eumathia, the newly-enlightened ones.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 379 (Southern Lykaonia 11: 1957-64)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 379 (Southern Lykaonia 11: 1957-64)
The term νεοφώτιστος, ‘newly-enlightened’, i.e. ‘newly-baptised’, is common in early Christian Greek funerary epigraphy, particularly for children; cf. e.g. Feissel 1983: 119-21, no. 123 (Thessalonike), with commentary; SEG 27, 875 (Ankara). For funerary inscriptions of this type (μνήμη + genitive), cf. MAMA XI 386 (1957/63: Kavuklar); MAMA XI 381 (1957/67: Anbar). For the form of the monument, cf. MAMA XI 381.