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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.

Illustrations:

Squeeze of MAMA XI 223 (Kinna 2: 1957-6)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 223 (Kinna 2: 1957-6)