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Funerary bomos of the parents(?) of Eidomeneus

Type of monument:
Funerary bomos.
Location:
Ömerli (Eumeneia): outside a house near the station.
Description:
White marble bomos, complete, buried above. On the shaft, wreath with hanging grape-clusters and two ribbons; inscription in tabula ansata (Ht. 0.22; W. 0.26).
Dimensions:
Ht. 1.05+; W. 0.46 (shaft), 0.55 (lower moulding); Th. 0.42 (shaft), 0.54 (lower moulding); letters 0.020-0.030.
Record:
Squeeze; WMC notebook copy; photograph (1954/16).
Publication:
None.
Date:
AD 130/1 (Year 215 of Sullan era).
 
 

Σ[- - - - - - - -]
Εἰδομε̣ν̣εὺς
C̣Λ̣ΥΕΓ̣Ι̣ . . . . . . Α
γον̣ε̣ῖ̣ς (?) οἱ̣ φ̣ι̣λ̣ά-
5δελ̣φ̣οι· χα̣[ίρε]ι̣ν
πᾶσιν
ἔτους σιε´
...Eidomeneus... parents, the loving brothers; greetings to all. Year 215.

I am unable to propose a plausible reading in line 3; the reading in line 4 is very uncertain. For the name Εἰδομενεύς in southern Phrygia, cf. SEG 50, 1265 (Motella); Ramsay, Phrygia I 155, no. 60 (Motella); MAMA IV 203 (Apollonia by Pisidia).

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 34 (Eumeneia 11: 1954-16)

MAMA XI 34 (Eumeneia 11: 1954-16)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 34 (Eumeneia 11: 1954-16)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 34 (Eumeneia 11: 1954-16)