Description: Marble stele: w: 0.485-0.51 × h: 0.715 × d: 0.10, the upper edge is lost, but the tenon for attachment below is still intact (w: 0.21 × h: 0.08).

Text: Inscribed on the face; after line 16 an engraved double line, before lines 16 ff.

Letters: 0.015-0.025

Date: Late second to early third century CE (material context)

Findspot: Ata Eymir

Original location: Unknown

Last recorded location: Museum

English translation

Translation source: Chaniotis, 2016d

[Resolved by the council and the people]. The proposal was made by the generals and Hephaistion, son of Hermogenes, secretary (or: by the general and secretary Hephaistion). Whereas Pankrates, son of Adrastos, descendant of good and virtuous ancestors, who promised benefactions and made dedications/donations to the demos, a man who himself lives in virtue and goodness continually conducting his life (?) with the fairest education and discipline; when he was also elected to the office of the general of the city, he fulfilled the duties of the office in a just manner; may it be resolved by the council and the demos to praise Pankrates and honor him; and may his (painted) image in a gilded shield be dedicated. The same (honors were decreed) by the citizens of Tabai. Wanderer, this tomb holds Pankratides, the man who passed the greatest turning point of life in an honorable manner. He left two sons and a fair daughter; and from his daughter he saw children and the children’s children. Honored among his fellow citizens because of his magistracies and his advice, and having fulfilled seven decades of years and another two, he reached the end of a gentle life without mourning and sorrow. Farewell to him, who has left undying memory among the mortals.

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