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Funerary stele for Romula

Type of monument:
Funerary stele.
Location:
Kulu (Kinna): in a garden, in a pile of building-stones said to have been brought from Yaraşlı (with MAMA XI 228 [1957/8]).
Description:
Tapered trachyte stele, with round projection above, incised with an equilateral maltese cross; back rough. Inscription in sunken panel.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.83; W. 0.32; Th. 0.20; letters 0.040.
Record:
Squeeze; AH notebook copy; photograph (1957/10=5701).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Third or fourth century AD.
 
 

Αὐρί-
λιος Ἀ-
νίκ[ητ]-
ος Γ̣α̣ΐ̣-
5ο̣υ̣ (?) ἀν-
έστισε [ἰ]-
δ̣ί̣ᾳ̣ σ̣ι̣ν̣-
βίου Ῥ-
ωμύ̣λ̣ῃ̣ (?)
10χάριν
μνήμης
†
Aurelius Aniketos, son of Gaius (?), set this up for his own wife Romula (?), in memoriam.

The face of the stone is extremely worn and difficult to read; the name Ἀνίκ[ητ]ος in lines 2-4 is certain (cf. MAMA XI 242 [1957/31]: Altılar), but I have no great confidence in my readings Γ̣α̣ί̣ο̣υ̣ (lines 4-5) or Ῥωμ̣ύ̣λ̣ῃ̣ (lines 8-9).

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 229 (Kinna 8: 1957-10)

MAMA XI 229 (Kinna 8: 1957-10)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 229 (Kinna 8: 1957-10)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 229 (Kinna 8: 1957-10)