Abstract:

The Museum of Bursa has a huge number of archaeological and epigraphic artifacts primarily from Bithynia, Mysia and Phrygia. In 2004 we began to continually record the inscriptions that had been brought to the museum since 1993. The inscriptions from Prusa ad Olympum and its territory were published in a corpus of two volumes (IPrusa I and II). The main aim of our work has been preparing a new corpus that covers the new inscriptions. But work like this article will continue to introduce new inscriptions prior to the publication of the corpus. Here we introduce ten new funerary inscriptions. One of the inscriptions is on a large altar, the others on stele. Except for two steles (no. 3-4), all were discovered in Prusa and its territory (see the map). The other two steles were found in Balıkesir (in the territory of Hadrianoutherai) according to the inventory records. All the steles carry reliefs. On stele nos. 5 and 6 there are the reliefs of funeral banquets (Totenmahlreliefs). On altar no. 8, the grave­stone of a young man and his mother there is a large architrave that probably carried a sarcophagus, as was usual in Bithynia.

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