MAMA XI 35 (Eumeneia) 
Funerary bomos of an unknown individual
- Type of monument:
- Funerary bomos.
- Location:
- Işıklı (Eumeneia): unknown.
- Description:
- Fragment of white marble bomos, broken above, left, and below. Lines 1-10 in a moulded panel; lines 11-13 below.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.45+; W. 0.21+; Th. 0.20; letters --.
- Record:
- Photograph; RB notebook copy (RB 1954-2).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- AD 197/8 (Year 282 of Sullan era)
[- - - - -] Α̣ . . Α
[μηδενὸς ἑ]τέρου
[ἐξουσίαν ἔ]χ̣οντος
[κηδευθ]ῆ̣ναι, εἰ
5[μὴ (?) τέκνου. ε]ἴ τις ἐπι-
[τηδεύσει] ἕ̣τερόν
[τινα θεῖν]αι, θήσει
[εἰς τὸν φί]σκον (δηνάρια) ͵βφ´
[καὶ εἰς τὴ]ν Εὐμενέ-
10[ων βουλὴ]ν̣ (δηνάρια) ͵β´· τούτου
[ἀντίγραφον] ἀπετέθη εἰς
[τὸ ἀρχεῖον· ἔτο]υ̣ς σπβ´ μη(νὸς) η´
[- - - - - - - -]Ο̣Δ̣Η̣ . . Γ̣Ι̣Ο̣
[- - - - - - - - - -]
...no-one else has the right to be buried here, except my child?. If anyone tries to bury anyone else, he will pay to the fisc 2,500 denarii and to the council of the Eumeneians 2,000 denarii. A copy of this was deposited in the archive. Year 282, Month 8...
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 35 (Eumeneia 12: 1954-2)
Notebook copy of MAMA XI 35 (Eumeneia 12: 1954-2)
For the use of numbered months at Eumeneia, cf. MAMA XI 36 (1954/14); MAMA XI 38 (1954/17); SEG 28, 1129. For the payment of fines both to the fisc and to the town council, cf. Ramsay, Phrygia II 383, no. 220; Buckler, Calder and Cox 1926: 61, no. 182; Drew-Bear 1978: 90, IV 23. For my restoration in lines 4-5, cf. I.Pessinous 93, μηδενὶ ἐξὸν εἶναι προστεθῆναι χωρὶς εἰ μὴ τέκνου.