MAMA XI 44 (Eumeneia) 
Funerary bomos of Valerius Gaius, Christian, and family
- Type of monument:
- Funerary bomos.
- Location:
- Işıklı (Eumeneia): in a house.
- Description:
- Marble bomos, broken below.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.52+; W. 0.39 (upper moulding), 0.29 (shaft); Th. 0.37 (upper moulding), 0.27 (shaft); letters 0.025.
- Record:
- Squeeze; RB notebook copy (RB 1954/15).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- c. AD 275-300
Οὐαλέριος
Γάϊος χρ(ιστιανὸς) σὺν̣
Οὐαλερίᾳ Ἀν-
τωνίᾳ τῇ γ[υ]-
5[να]ι̣κὶ Εὐφρο-
[σύνῃ- - -].
Valerius Gaius, Christian, with his wife Valeria Antonia, for Euphro[syne...].
Illustrations:
Squeeze of MAMA XI 44 (Eumeneia 21: 1954-15)
Notebook copy of MAMA XI 44 (Eumeneia 21: 1954-15)
The Christogram in line 2 is also found in a Eumeneian funerary inscription of the late third century, set up by Αὐρ. Γλυκων[ίδης] Εὐμενεὺς Χρ(ειστιανὸς) ἐπίσκοπος (Buckler, Calder and Cox 1926: 73-4, no. 200; Tabbernee 1997: 220-3, no. 32; cf. also Ramsay, Phrygia II 526-8, no. 371 Eumeneia); MAMA VI 234 (Apameia).