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Ottoman funerary inscription on a Hellenistic or Roman relief
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Hellenistic or Roman relief depicting half a rosette. It could belong to an architectural sculpture or to a funerary stele or part of a sarcophagus. During the Ottoman period it was reused as a funerary stele and it bears an Ottoman inscription with the Hijra year 1155 (=1742) and the name of the deceased: Hatice.
Ephorate of Antiquities of Messenia
Title: Ottoman funerary inscription on a Hellenistic or Roman relief
Description:
Hellenistic or Roman relief depicting half a rosette.
It could belong to an architectural sculpture or to a funerary stele or part of a sarcophagus.
During the Ottoman period it was reused as a funerary stele and it bears an Ottoman inscription with the Hijra year 1155 (=1742) and the name of the deceased: Hatice.
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