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Funerary bomos of Kleopatra and husband

Type of monument:
Funerary bomos.
Location:
Erice (Sebaste): in the porch of the mosque.
Description:
Coarse marble bomos, broken below, upper mouldings cut off. On the front, below the inscription, male and female busts; on left side, writing-tablets and stilus-case.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.81+; W. 0.44 (shaft); Th. 0.38 (shaft); letters 0.025-0.028.
Record:
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/45).
Publication:
None.
Date:
II/III AD.
 
 

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νάνδρου τῇ καὶ Κλε-
οπάτρᾳ συνβίῳ γλυ-
κυτάτῃ ταχυμοίρῳ
5τὸ μνημεῖον κ[α]-
[τ]εσκεύασε[ν]
[κ]αὶ ἑ-
[αυ]-
[τῷ]
...constructed the memorial for... daughter of Menandros, also known as Kleopatra, his sweetest wife, who died young, and for himself.

The term ταχύμοιρος seems to have been particularly current in the funerary epigraphy of Akmoneia: see MAMA VI 275 (Arslanlar); Michon 1906a: 39-43 (‘Acmonia’); Ramsay, Phrygia II 614, no. 522 (İslâmköy); 615, no. 528 (Hasanköy); 655, no. 575 (İslâmköy); cf. also MAMA X 87 (Appia).

Illustrations:

Photograph of MAMA XI 83 (Sebaste 19: 1956-45)

Photograph of MAMA XI 83 (Sebaste 19: 1956-45)