MAMA XI 383 (Southern Lykaonia) 
Funerary inscription set up by Domitius and others
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription.
- Location:
- Akçaşehir (Southern Lykaonia): built into the east wall of the porch of the mosque.
- Description:
- Block of creamy-white limestone, broken left and above. Remains of a panel moulding below and right (defaced).
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.34+; W. 0.51+; Th. --; letters 0.030-0.035.
- Record:
- Squeeze; AH notebook copy; photograph (1957/58=5846).
- Publication:
- Paris and Radet 1886: 513, no.33; Pridik 1900: 20, no. 4 (non vidi); (Laminger-Pascher 1992: 115, no. 131).
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
[(e.g.) ἀνέστησαν τὴν στήλην ταύ]-
την v. Δομί̣τ̣ι̣ο̣ς καὶ Δέ-
κμος καὶ Οὐίτλο̣ς̣ [ὑ]ο̣ὶ̣
Νίγρου καὶ Πρεῖμα καὶ
ΜΝΗΝΙΣ ἡ μ̣[η]τ̣[ὴρ] αὐτῶν
5εὐχαριστύας ἕνεκεν.
Line 1: Δό̣μν[α]ν̣ καὶ P(aris) and R(adet).
Line 4: εὐχαριστίας P. and R.
[... they set up this stele], Domitius and Decimus and Vitulus the sons of Niger, and Prima and ... their mother, in gratitude.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 383 (Southern Lykaonia 15: 1957-58)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 383 (Southern Lykaonia 15: 1957-58)
This stone was seen by Paris and Radet in the mosque at Akçaşehir in May 1885. To judge from Laminger-Pascher’s report of Pridik’s 1900 publication of the stone (from an 1895 copy by Smirnov), their copy was distinctly superior to that of Smirnov. I am unable to offer a plausible explanation of the sequence ΜΝΗΝΙΣ in line 4, which ought to represent a woman’s name. It is possible that the first couple of letters of this name were inscribed on the moulding at the end of line 3 or at the start of line 4 (i.e. [. .]ΜΝΗΝΙΣ). For the spelling Οὐίτλο̣ς̣ in line 2 (=Vitulus), cf. MAMA VI 296 (Akmoneia: Οὐιτλιανῷ); I.Ankara 8.40 (Οὐίτλου).