“Cylindrical altar of marble with bucrania and garlands and the moon’s crescent with a star in it. Upper part of the stone is partly damaged” (Malay).

1 For the name Νοήμων Herrmann refers to L. Robert, Stèles funéraires, p. 180.

2 Τρίτος̣ [ὁ σκ]η̣̣πτροφόρος: my reading; ΤΡΙΤΟ̣[ - - - ]ΠΤΡΟΦΟΡΟΣ, Anabolu; “the text seems to run: Νο[ήμων Ν]οήμονος / τρίτος̣ ὁ̣ [σκη]πτροφόρος…,” Herrmann (SEG 36). Τρίτος seems to be the second name of the dedicant Noemon (this interpretation is also considered in Herrmann’s manuscript). It may be of indigenous (Illyrian?) origin; see O. Masson, RPhil. 54 (1980), p. 231, with n. 6 (= OGS 2, p. 361); SEG 30, 1834; Masson, BCH 114 (1990), p. 509 (= OGS 3, p. 89); BCH 115 (1991), p. 358 (= OGS 3, p. 121); and in Grecs et Illyriens dans les inscr…d’Epidamne-Dyrrhachion… (1993), p. 78 (= OGS 3, p. 161); cf. B. Lörincz, Onomasticon provinciarum Europae latinarum IV (2002), p. 130. Or, more probably, Τρίτος is derived from the numeral “third” (like the Latin name Tertius); see Masson, ZPE 119 (1997), p. 69 (= OGS 3, p. 276), in the chapter “Anthroponymes grecs tirés de noms de nombre”; cf., e.g., IGSK 23 (Smyrna), no. 494 where the name Πρῶτος presumably corresponds to Latin Primus.

For the σκηπτροφόρος, Herrmann refers to OGI 245 (= IGLS 1184 [“prêtre nommé annuellement pour porter le sceptre”]; SEG 35, 1521; Seleukeia Pieria, second century BC), ll. 22 and 45. He underlines that in the religious inscriptions of the Imperial period from northeastern Lydia the god’s scepter plays an important role; see references in Petzl, Beichtinschriften, no. 3, 2–4 comm; id., “Keine Szepter an Gräbern,” ZPE 177 (2011), pp. 123–26.

3 Μητρὶ Σκεπνου: elsewhere unknown; Herrmann compares Μήτηρ Καλλίππου (SEG 28, 1183) and Μήτηρ Νουννου (SEG 44, 1063); cf. Malay and Petzl, New Religious Texts, no. 107 comm. The person whose name is added in the genitive may have been the founder of the particular Meter cult. Yet, a personal name formed on Σκεπν- seems so far to be unattested. Dot: ΣΚΕΠΝΟΥ· ΑΝΕΘΗΚΕ.