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Funerary bomos of Artas and family

Type of monument:
Funerary bomos.
Location:
Kırka (Sebaste): by the mosque.
Description:
Marble bomos, complete.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.77; W. 0.48 (upper moulding), 0.35-0.39 (shaft), 0.43 (lower moulding); Th. 0.41 (upper moulding), 0.34 (shaft); letters 0.033.
Record:
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/40).
Publication:
None.
Date:
AD 255/6 (Year 340 of Sullan era).
 
 

[ἔ]τ̣ους · τμ´
Αὐρ(ήλιος) . Τειμοκρ-
άτης Ἀρτᾶ τῶι
[ἰ]δίῳ ἀδελφῶι
5Ἀρτᾷ β´ {Σ} καὶ τῇ γυ-
ναικὶ αὐτοῦ Ἀ-
μμίᾳ καὶ τοῖς τέκν-
οις αὐτοῦ Τειμο[κ]-
ράτῃ{ς} καὶ Κουαρτί̣-
10λλῃ μνήμης χάριν.
Year 340. Aur. Teimokrates, son of Artas, for his own brother Artas son of Artas {S} and his wife Ammia and his children Teimokrates and Quartilla, in memoriam.

Illustrations:

Photograph of MAMA XI 84 (Sebaste 20: 1956-40)

Photograph of MAMA XI 84 (Sebaste 20: 1956-40)

Drawing of MAMA XI 84 (Sebaste 20: 1956-40)

Drawing of MAMA XI 84 (Sebaste 20: 1956-40)

Squeeze of l. 5 of MAMA XI 84 (Sebaste 20: 1956-40)

Squeeze of l. 5 of MAMA XI 84 (Sebaste 20: 1956-40)