Funerary Monuments from Phrygia

MAMA X no. 60

View larger, 300 dpi, image of MAMA X no. 60 fr. a

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Description

Provenience (ancient):

Appia

Provenience (modern):

Murathanlar

Category:

Funerary

Type:

Doorstone Type C Altintas 1

Subject:

Two fragments perhaps belonging to the right edge of the same doorstone funerary monument of white marble. Fr. a is inscribed "flower of the [fat]herland", fr. b with the text of the funerary inscription.
The reverse of each fragment was reinscribed in Byzantine times with the epitaphs 064 and 065.

Date:

early second quarter of third century AD

Sculptor or Workshop:

Same stonemason as a doorstone in Afyon Museum dated c. 225-240.

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Provenience (ancient):	Appia
Provenience (modern):	Murathanlar
Category:	Funerary
Type:	Doorstone Type C Altintas 1
Subject:	Two fragments perhaps belonging to the right edge of the same doorstone funerary monument of white marble. Fr. a is inscribed "flower of the [fat]herland", fr. b with the text of the funerary inscription. The reverse of each fragment was reinscribed in Byzantine times with the epitaphs 064 and 065.
Date:	early second quarter of third century AD
Sculptor or Workshop:	Same stonemason as a doorstone in Afyon Museum dated c. 225-240.