MAMA XI 223 (Kinna)
Funerary bomos for Titus Aurelius Menandros
- Type of monument:
- Funerary bomos.
- Location:
- Kulu (Kinna): by the mosque.
- Description:
- Blackish trachyte bomos, buried below; back side rough. On the upper moulding, six-pointed rosette (diameter 0.15).
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.23+; W. 0.52 (upper moulding), 0.42 (shaft); Th. 0.35; letters 0.020-0.030.
- Record:
- Squeeze; AH notebook copy (1957/6).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Second century AD.
Αὐρηλία Σατ-
ουρνεῖνα Τί-
τῳ Αὐρηλίῳ Με-
νάνδρῳ, στρα-
5τευσαμένῳ
τρίτῃ λεγιῶνι,
ἰδίῳ συνβίῳ ἀν-
έστη[σ]εν μνή-
μης χάριν.
Aurelia Saturnina set this up for her own husband, Titus Aurelius Menandros, ex-soldier in the third legion, in memoriam.
Menandros presumably served in legio III Gallica or legio III Cyrenaica. The bare dative in line 6 is surprising, but the squeeze shows no trace of a preposition (ἐν) at the end of line 5.