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Funerary stele of Sisinnios

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Anbar (Southern Lykaonia): by the höyük.
Description:
Blackish limestone stele, complete. Inscription upside-down in crude tabula ansata; below, inset panel containing large cross in relief with semicircular base. Above the arms of the cross, two plain bosses in relief; below, the letters alpha and omega in relief.
Dimensions:
Ht. 1.96; W. 0.96; Th. 0.16; letters 0.065-0.090.
Record:
MB notebook copy; photograph (1957/67=5841).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Fifth or sixth century AD.
 
 

μνήμη
Σισινίου
Memorial of Sisinnius.

For funerary inscriptions of this type (μνήμη +genitive), cf. MAMA XI 379 (1957/64: Anbar); MAMA XI 386 (1957/63: Kavuklar). The monument is of exactly the same type as MAMA XI 379: a large stele, with an inset panel on the shaft containing a large cross in relief, with a tabula ansata above. To all appearances, this stele has been turned upside-down, its original inscription erased, and the tabula ansata reinscribed with the text given here.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 381 (Southern Lykaonia 13: 1957-67)

MAMA XI 381 (Southern Lykaonia 13: 1957-67)