MAMA XI 255 (Laodikeia) 
Votive bomos of Alexandros to Meter Zizimene
- Type of monument:
- Votive bomos.
- Location:
- Ladık (Laodikeia): not recorded.
- Description:
- Grey marble bomos, buried below. Roundel and decorative corner acroteria above. Line 1 of inscription on plain upper moulding; line 2 on concave part of cyma moulding below; lines 3-6 on shaft. On the shaft, defaced relief depiction of female figure with polos.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.48+; W. 0.46 (upper moulding), 0.39 (shaft); Th. 0.39 (shaft); letters 0.025-0.030.
- Record:
- Squeeze; AH notebook copy; photograph (1957/112=5941).
- Publication:
- Ramsay 1888: 237, no. 9; [IGR III 246]; W.M. Calder, MAMA I 2(d) (description and measurements only); [Vermaseren 1987: I 238, no. 790 = I 239, no. 794].
- Date:
- AD 41-138 (ethnic of Claudiconium).
Μητρὶ Ζιζιμηνῇ εὐχή̣ν̣·
Ἀλέξανδρος
Ἀλεξάνδρου
Δοκιμεὺς ὁ
5κ̣αὶ Κλαυδει-
[κ]ονεύς.
For Meter Zizimene, in fulfillment of a vow: Alexandros, son of Alexandros, citizen of Dokimeion and of Claudiconium.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 255 (Laodikeia 2: 1957-112)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 255 (Laodikeia 2: 1957-112)
Votive monuments to Meter Zizimene are listed by Mitchell 1979a: 425, and by Maclean in his commentary to I.Konya 7. The centre of the cult of Meter Zizimene was at Sızma, 12km south of Ladık (TIB Phrygien 421, s.v. Zizima). For the usage of ὁ καί to indicate dual citizenship, cf. e.g. I.Ephesos 688 (Ἀλέξανδρος Μενάνδρου Εὐμενεὺς ὁ καὶ Ἐφέσιος); TAM V 2, 1006 (Λούκιον Ἀντώνιον Νεικόστρατον Θυατειρηνὸν τὸν καὶ Ἀθηναῖον); IG XII 2, 393 (Mytilene: Σαραπίων Εἰσιδώρου Ἀλεξανδρεὺς ὁ καὶ Πηλουσιώτης). Alexandros may well be an itinerant Dokimeian stone-mason, large numbers of whom are known throughout Phrygia and the western part of the plateau: cf. MAMA XI 358 (1954/54: Kana); 340 (1956/163: Perta); 7 (1956/103: Apollonia). The form of the ethnic Κλαυδει[κ]ονεύς dates this text to between the reigns of Claudius and Hadrian: see Aulock 1976: 51-9, 75-90; Mitchell 1979a: 412-5.