MAMA XI 42 (Eumeneia)

Funerary bomos of the family of Menekrates

Type of monument:: Funerary bomos.
Location:: Karayahşiler (Eumeneia): in a cemetery south of the village.
Description:: Yellowish-brown bomos, split in two vertically, one half at either end of a modern grave. Inscription begins on front face (A: line 1 on upper moulding, lines 2-12 on shaft), and continues on left-hand side (B).
Dimensions:: Ht. 0.99; W. --; Th. 0.43 (upper moulding), 0.33 (shaft), 0.45 (lower moulding); letters 0.030 (A), 0.030-0.035 (B).
Record:: Squeeze; WMC notebook copy (1954); MB notebook copy (1957); photograph (1954/78=1957/167).
Publication:: Drew-Bear 1978: 81-2, IV 16 (right-hand half of A only); (SEG 28, 1153).
Date:: Third century AD.

A
(on upper moulding)
Μενεκράτης
(on shaft)
Ἀπολλωνίου
Εὐμενεὺς Ἀπο-
λλωνίῳ τῷ πα-
5τρὶ καὶ Θεοδώ-
ρᾳ τῇ μητρὶ κεκ-
ηδευμένοις
καὶ Θεοδώρᾳ
τῇ ἀδελφῇ
10μου καὶ Διο-
νυσίδι τῇ θυ-
γατρὶ

B
αὐτῆς τὸ ἡρῷον
κατεσκεύασε-
ν· εἰ δέ τις ἐπιτη-
δεύσει ἕτερον
5θεῖναι, ἔσται α-
ὐτῷ πρὸς τὸν
Θεόν.

Lines A 10-12: [καὶ π]αιδὶ Ἰου|[λίῳ κα]ὶ τῇ θυγ|[ατ]ρί Drew-Bear; [καὶ Ἡρ(?)]άιδι Ἰου|[λιαν]ῇ τῇ θυγ|[ατ]ρί Vérilhac 1980: 236.

Menekrates son of Apollonios, citizen of Eumeneia, constructed the tomb for my father Apollonios and my mother Theodora, already deceased, and my sister Theodora and her daughter Dionysis. If anyone tries to inter another, he will have to reckon with God.

Drew-Bear published the right-hand side of Face A in 1978, with an incorrect restoration in lines A 10-12. For the use of the ethnic Εὐμενεύς, see the commentary to MAMA XI 38 (1954/17). For the term κεκηδευμένοις (‘already deceased’) in lines A 6-7, compare Drew-Bear 1978: 86-8, IV 21 (SEG 12, 1152b); Drew-Bear 1978: 96-7, IV 33 (SEG 28, 1165). For the curse-formula in lines B 5-7, see the commentary to MAMA XI 36 (1954/14). For the name Dionysis at Eumeneia, compare MAMA IV 357.