MAMA XI 385 (Southern Lykaonia)

Funerary inscription of Stephanos

Type of monument:: Funerary monument.
Location:: Kavuklar (Southern Lykaonia): in a garden opposite the school (with MAMA XI 384 and 386).
Description:: Blue marble slab, broken in two; both fragments broken above. The two fragments do not quite join (c. 3-5cm missing). Inscription in incised tabula ansata, with stylised incised blind arcade above (three arches within rectangle).
Dimensions:: (Fr.1) 0.45+; W. 0.46+; Th. --; (Fr.2) 0.40+; W. 0.36+; Th. --; letters 0.025-0.050.
Record:: Squeeze; MB notebook copy; photographs (1957/62=5833-4).
Publication:: None.
Date:: Fifth or sixth century AD.

ἔνθα [κ]ατάκιτε
Στέφανος̣ ὁ εὐλαβ(έστατο)ς
ἀρχιδιάκ(ονο)[ς] Γουνδ-
ουρι(αείτης?) †

Here lies Stephanos, the most pious archdeacon, from the village of Kindyreou (?).

The reading ΓΟΥΝΔΟΥΡΙ in lines 3-4 seems certain. This seems very likely to be an abbreviated ethnic. I suggest that we are dealing with a phonetic variant of the ethnic of the village of Kindyreou, an ancient site on the territory of Laodikeia Katakekaumene, whose name was until recently preserved in the modern toponym Kındıras (TIB Phrygien 302, s.v. Kindyria; the village has now been renamed Demiroluk). For the ethnic, see MAMA VII 106 (Ilgın), Μαμας Μενελάου Κινδυριαείτης οἰκοῦντος ἐν Λαγεινοις Μητρὶ Ἀνδειρηνῇ κατὰ κέλευσιν, with Thonemann 2008: 43-4; for the toponym, see SEG 37, 1240 (Kındıras), Ἰουλιανοῦ τιμίου πρεσβυ(τέρου), πατρὶς Κινδυρεου ἥνπερ θεὸς εἰς ἐῶνα φυλάττει, with Drew-Bear 1987: 610-12.