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Funerary inscription of Letoes(?)
Type of monument
Funerary inscription.
Location
Hacınuman (Perta): by a well.
Description
Limestone slab with large panel, outlined with cavetto moulding. Below the inscription, Latin cross.
Dimensions
Ht. 1.71;
W. 0.62;
Th. 0.24;
letters 0.035-0.050.
Record
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/168).
Publication
None.
Date
Fifth or sixth century AD.
edition
ἔνθακατάχι-
τεΛΗΤΟ-
ΗΣὁτῆςλαημπρᾶςμνήμης.
ΛΑΗΠΡΑΣ.
Here lies Letoios (?), of glorious memory.
Commentary
For the phrase ὁ τῆς λαμπρᾶς μνήμης, cf. e.g. Ramsay, Phrygia II 743, no. 683 (Dokimeion); Harper 1969: 37, no. 8.13 (Kappadokian Komana: read ἔνθα κατάκειτε|ὁ τῆς λαμπρᾶς|μνήμης ὁ δεῖνα); French 2007: 74-5, no. 8 (Kırşehir Museum: read εἱ τῖς [i.e. ἡ τῆς; not εἵτις] λαμπρᾶς μνήμις). The reading in lines 3-4 seems certain, but the name *Λητοης is unattested and implausible. It is possible that we are dealing with a mason’s error for Λητόηϊος, a name which is well-attested in this period: see Dagron and Feissel 1987: 40-1, no. 15, with bibliography.