Funerary Stele from Nikaia in Turkey

[MeinPanzer]

I found this very interesting funerary stele from Nikaia in "Katalog der antiken Inschriften des Museums von Iznik (Nikaia)." Roman stelai really aren't my thing (I'm more of a Hellenistic dude), but this one caught my eye, mainly because it appears to show a helmet with a face mask. I'm unsure if this is a cavalry sports helmet, but it looks very similar to other examples that I've seen in the past.

www.antiquemilitaryhistory.com/images/4scythica.jpg

Unfortunately, despite the German title, the text is in Turkish. If anyone can read Turkish, here's the translation of the inscription:

Ben Aurelius Antipatros, 4. Legio Scythica eri, pek sevgili ebeveynim Marcus ve Prima anisina bu steli yaptirdim.

Aurelia Sa[

[Dan Diffendale]

There's a reference to Aurelius Antipatros in J.C.N. Coulston, "Later Roman armour, 3rd-6th centuries A.D." JRMES Volume 1 (1990), pp. 139-60, but we don't have it in the library here.

Anyway, what I can make out, is:
"I, Aurelios Antipatros, stratiotes of Leg. IV Scythica, set up this stela to the memory of my very dear parents Marcus and Prima. Aurelia Sa..."

Is the Greek transcribed in the Katalog?

[MeinPanzer]

There's a reference to Aurelius Antipatros in J.C.N. Coulston, "Later Roman armour, 3rd-6th centuries A.D." JRMES Volume 1 (1990), pp. 139-60, but we don't have it in the library here.

Anyway, what I can make out, is:
"I, Aurelios Antipatros, stratiotes of Leg. IV Scythica, set up this stela to the memory of my very dear parents Marcus and Prima. Aurelia Sa..."

Is the Greek transcribed in the Katalog?

Frustratingly, no, otherwise I would have translated and posted it. For a volume about Greek epigraphy, it has very few actual Greek inscriptions.

[Dan Diffendale]

It occurs to me-- would you mind if we added this to the imagebase here?

[MeinPanzer]

Go right ahead- it's just too bad that I couldn't find a better quality image.

Do you need the bibliographical information for this book?

[lisa]

There's a reference to Aurelius Antipatros in J.C.N. Coulston, "Later Roman armour, 3rd-6th centuries A.D." JRMES Volume 1 (1990), pp. 139-60, but we don't have it in the library here.

He references this stone (from this same publication as is being discussed here) on p. 142 because of the apparently face-masked helmet and the little lorica shown.