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Funerary inscription of –meilla

Type of monument:
Funerary inscription.
Location:
Kavuklar (Southern Lykaonia): in a garden opposite the school (with MAMA XI 384 and 385).
Description:
Blue marble slab, broken left and above. Inscription in incised tabula ansata, with geometric triangular design above; above, at centre, a cross in a circle.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.73+; W. 0.61+; Th. --; letters 0.060-0.070.
Record:
Squeeze; MB notebook copy; photograph (1957/63=5830).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Fifth or sixth century AD.
 
 

[μ]νήμη
[- -]μ̣ειλλα-
[ς]
Memorial of - -meilla.

The name in lines 2-3 should presumably be restored [Μαξι]μείλλα[ς], [Πρι]μείλλα[ς], [Ῥω]μείλλα[ς] vel sim. For funerary inscriptions of this type (μνήμη + genitive), cf. MAMA XI 379 (1957/64); MAMA XI 381 (1957/67: both from Anbar).

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 386 (Southern Lykaonia 18: 1957-63)

MAMA XI 386 (Southern Lykaonia 18: 1957-63)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 386 (Southern Lykaonia 18: 1957-63)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 386 (Southern Lykaonia 18: 1957-63)