Habelt-Verlag · Bonn Epigraphica Anatolica 48 (2015) 115–136 INSCRIPTIONS FROM NEOKLAUDIOPOLIS/ANDRAPA (VEZİRKÖPRÜ, TURKEY) INSCRIPTIONS FROM NEOKLAUDIOPOLIS/ANDRAPA (VEZİRKÖPRÜ, TURKEY) * Within recent years, a number of inscriptions have come to light in Vezirköprü (ancient Nea- polis/Neoklaudiopolis/Andrapa) and its immediate environs. 1 The district known as the Cum- huriyet Mahallesi immediately to the south of the present town centre has been especially rich in ancient remains, and many of these, along with spoils and inscriptions from other parts of the city, have now been brought together and exhibited in the municipal park (Köprülü Mehmet Paşa Parkı). 1. Meliboia 2 Description In the Köprülü Mehmet Paşa Parkı lies a reddish limestone stele, the present dimensions of which are 129 x 45 cm (fig. 1). The upper part of the stele is composed of a gable, which is filled by a large, moulded wreath. The stele is fractured below line 10 and has been trimmed on the left and right-hand sides as well as at the base. The stele as preserved carries 19 lines of Greek text. The height of the letters is 3 cm. Omikron, theta and omega are all angular, the sigma has four bars, except for l. 15 where the sigma is an- gular. In the first six lines the crossbar of the alpha is straight, from line 7 onwards broken. The size of the loop of the rho varies (e.g., ll. 8–9). Most letters have conspicuous serifs, and the alpha in most cases an apex. A ligature of eta and ny occurs in l. 5. Text Tὴν ποθεινὴν Μελίβοιαν ἀνήρ- πασε Μῶμος ἀνο̣[ί]- 4 κτως κουριδίην γαμετὴν Κανδίδο̣[υ] ἀγκαλίδων στε- ψαμένην βιότ[ου] 8 γεραροῦ πανεπ̣[ή]- ρατον ἄνθος ο[ἰ]- [κ]ουρίῃ συνέσε̣[ι] σωφροσύνῃ σο[φί]- 12 ῃ πεντ’ ἔτη συν- * The authors wish to thank Dr. Pamela Anastasio (Academia Belgica, Rome), Dr. Gian Franco Chiai (Ber- lin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and Humanities), Prof. Dr. Rainer Czichon (University of Uşak), Mr. Bün- yamin Kıvrak (Vezirköprü), Prof. Dr. Christian Marek (University of Zurich), Prof. Dr. Eckart Olshausen (Universi- ty of Stuttgart), Dr. Harald von der Osten-Woldenburg (Stuttgart) and Dr. Vera Sauer (University of Stuttgart) for their assistance in preparing this article. We are especially grateful to Prof. Dr. Werner Eck, Prof. Dr. Georg Petzl and Dr. Gregor Staab (University of Cologne) for their critical comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. 1 Kahl (1995); Kahl (1997); Marek (2000) 137–138 no. 3; Bekker-Nielsen (2010); Bekker-Nielsen and Høgel (2012); Sørensen (2013). 2 We are very grateful to Gregor Staab for his reading of this inscription.