MAMA XI 123 (Akmoneia)

Funerary bomos of Reglianus of Eumeneia

Type of monument:: Funerary bomos.
Location:: Emiraz (Ayvacık) [Akmoneia]: in a lane.
Description:: Marble bomos with omphaloid top; moulded panels on all four sides. On left side, patera (?) in relief; on right side tablets and stilus-case. Broken above and below.
Dimensions:: Ht. 0.80+; W. 0.47+ (top), 0.41 (shaft); Th. 0.42 (top), 0.36 (shaft); letters 0.013-0.022.
Record:: Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1955/93).
Publication:: None.
Date:: Third century AD (personal names)

[- -] Ρ̣ . ΜΗ̣ . . Λ̣ . . ΡΟ . [- -]
Ῥηγλιανὸς Εὐμενεὺς βου[λευ]-
τὴς φυλῆς Ἀρτεμεισιάδο[ς]
τὸ θέμα καὶ τὸν ἐφ᾿ α̣ὐ̣-
5τοῦ βωμὸν ζῶν ἑα̣[υ]-
τῷ καὶ τῇ γλυκυτά̣τ̣ῃ
τεκούσῃ Αὐρηλίᾳ
Ῥηγλιανῇ καὶ τῇ γυνα̣[ικί]
μου Αὐρ̣(ηλίᾳ) Αὐφιδίᾳ
10Ἀντωνίᾳ καὶ τοῖς
{καὶ τοῖς} ἐκγ̣ό̣ν̣ο̣ι̣ς̣
μου κατεσκεύασα
τὸ ἡρῷον · οὐδενὶ
ἑτέρῳ ἐξὸν ἔστα[ι κη]-
15δευθῆναι ἐν αὐτῷ.
[ὃς] δ̣᾿ ἂν ἐπιτηδεύ-
[σῃ, θήσει] ε̣ἰς τὸ ἱερότ̣α̣-
[τὸν ταμε]ῖον (δηνάρια) φ´

...Regulianus, citizen of Eumeneia, councillor, of the tribe Artemeisias, (constructed) the base and the bomos on top of it while still living, for himself and his sweetest mother Aurelia Reguliana and my wife Aur. Aufidia Antonia and my descendants, I constructed the heroon: it shall not be permitted for anyone else to be buried in it. Whoever tries to do so shall pay to the most sacred fisc 500 denarii.

For this type of funerary monument at Akmoneia (bomos with relief depictions of domestic objects), see MAMA XI 121 (1955/101). The tablets and stilus-case on the right face of the monument are very similar to those depicted on the funerary monuments of Aur. Basileus and Aur. Macedon (Robert, Hellenica X, 247-8 with Pl. XXXII; 251-2 with Pl. XXXIV).

The name Ῥηγλιανός is an ordinary patronymic formation from the common Latin name Regulus (normally transcribed in Greek as Ῥῆγλος); cf. SEG 28, 1015 (TAM IV 1, 150). On the term τεκοῦσα (‘mother’) in line 7, see Robert, Hellenica XI/XII, 388-9, and cf. MAMA XI 14 (1956/82: Apollonia); MAMA XI 23 (1994/2: Apameia); MAMA XI 138 (1955/31: Otluk). The text switches mid-way through from the third person (ἑα̣[υ]τῷ, lines 5-6) to the first person (τῇ γυνα̣[ικί] μου, lines 8-9; τοῖς ἐκγ̣ό̣ν̣ο̣ι̣ς̣ μου κατεσεύασα τὸ ἡρῷον, lines 10-13), and it is unclear whether the reader is meant to supply another verb to govern the accusatives τὸ θέμα καὶ τὸν ἐφ᾿ α̣ὐ̣τοῦ βωμὸν in lines 4-5. For the meaning of the term θέμα, see Kubinska 1968: 73-8; Coulton 2005: 132.

I assume that Regulianus is a citizen of Eumeneia but a member of the boule of Akmoneia. For citizens of neighbouring cities acting as members of the boule at Akmoneia, compare [Αὐρ.] Φιλόδ[η]μος Ἀντω[νει]νιανὸς Δομν[ι]ανὸς Εὐμενεὺς βουλευτής (Ramsay, Phrygia II 658, no. 605: Akmoneia); Πατροκλῆς Πατροκλέους τοῦ Εὐξένο[υ π]ένπτου Εὐκαρπεὺς βουλευτής (MAMA XI 45 (1954/13) [SEG 15, 810]: Eumeneia). The tribe Artemisias is attested at both Akmoneia (Ramsay, Phrygia II 641, no. 532; IGR IV 642 [wrongly reported as ‘Asklepias’ in MAMA VI 149, List 166*]) and Eumeneia (Drew-Bear 1978: 70-2, IV 4 [SEG 28, 1118]; 73-4, IV 6 [SEG 28, 1117]).

Regulianus and his wife, Aur. Aufidia Antonia, seem both to have been members of old Akmoneian families. An Aufidius Regulus and an Aufidius Glykon appear in an unpublished list of Akmoneian delegates to the sanctuary at Claros in AD 146/7 (information courtesy of J.-L. Ferrary); Aufidius Auxeitos and Aufidia Marcella appear in an Akmoneian delegation-list of AD 180/1 (Macridy 1912: 55, no. 28; date courtesy of J.-L. Ferrary).

For the find-spot of this inscription, the village of Emiraz (modern Ayvacık), roughly equidistant from Akmoneia (Ahat) and Diokleia (Ahırhisar [Yeşilhisar]), see Robert, Hellenica X, 120 n.5; for other monuments from Emiraz, see MAMA VI 240 (dedication to Severus Alexander by a κατοικία, probably dependent on Akmoneia), 241, 309, 326, 335, 348.