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Funerary bomos of Aur. Ammia and family

Type of monument:
Funerary bomos.
Location:
Kızılcasöğüt (Akmoneia): in the courtyard of the mosque.
Description:
White marble bomos, broken above. On the front, lines 1-6 of the inscription (line 1 on upper moulding; lines 2-5 in panel; line 6 on lower moulding); on left side, in relief, tongs, hammer and anvil; on the back, spindle, distaff and comb; on the right, mirror and lines 7-13 of the inscription.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.41+; W. -- (top), 0.29-0.31 (shaft), 0.35 (base); Th. -- (top), 0.28-0.31 (shaft), 0.35 (base); letters 0.016-0.028.
Record:
MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/42).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Third century AD.
 
 
I
[Α]ὐ̣ρ(ηλία) Ἀμμ[ία]
ἀνδρὶ
Ἀλεξάν-
δρῳ καὶ
5θυγατρὶ
Ἀφφίᾳ σὺν τῷ

II
ἀνδρὶ αὐτῆς
Διο- m δώρῳ
καὶ i τῷ πα-
ιδί- r ῳ αὐ-
5τῶν r μνή-
μης o χάριν
ἐπύ- r ησα
I, Aur(elia) Ammia, made this for my husband Alexandros and my daughter Apphia with her husband Diodoros and their child, in memoriam.

For this type of funerary monument at Akmoneia (bomos with domestic objects depicted in relief), see MAMA XI 121 (1955/101). Presumably the child of Apphia and Diodoros had not yet been born at the time this inscription was erected; alternatively, it might have died before it had been named: compare Dittenberger on IG VII 690 (Tanagra) and Hallof on IG IX 12 4 1270 (Leukas); Waelkens 1986: 107-9, no. 252.

Illustrations:

Photograph of MAMA XI 124 (Akmoneia 26: 1956-42)

Photograph of MAMA XI 124 (Akmoneia 26: 1956-42)