MAMA XI 256 (Laodikeia) 
Votive lion of Aelius Longus to Meter Amlasenzene
- Type of monument:
- Votive lion.
- Location:
- Ladık (Laodikeia): not recorded.
- Description:
- Grey marble base for statuette of lion; both front paws and right back paw survive.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.15+; W. 0.23; Th. 0.21; letters 0.015-0.025.
- Record:
- Squeeze; AH notebook copy; photograph (1957/90=5939).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Second or third century AD.
Αἴλιος Λόνγος
Μητρὶ Αμλασενζη-
[ν]ῇ εὐχήν.
Aelius Longus, for Meter Amlasenzene, in fulfillment of a vow.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 256 (Laodikeia 3: 1957-90)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 256 (Laodikeia 3: 1957-90)
On the gentilician Aelius at Laodikeia, cf. MAMA XI 257 (1957/87: Ladık). The Meter Amlasenzene is also attested on a votive statuette supposedly found in the vicinity of Cihanbeyli, now in the Konya museum, depicting Kybele seated between two lions, with the inscription Μητρὶ Αμλασενζηνῇ εὐχήν (I.Konya 14); she may well also be attested on a votive bomos from Zıvarık/Altınekin (MAMA XI 276 [1956/154]), which appears to have carried a dedication to Αμ̣μλ̣α̣σ̣ενζοσ(ηνῇ).
The find-spots of the latter two monuments, Cihanbeyli and Zıvarık/Altınekin, strongly suggest that the Meter Amlasenzene/Ammlasenzosene had some connection with the ancient village of Σενζουσα, situated at Toprakkale, in the steppe north-east of Laodikeia, 19km NNE of Zıvarık/Altınekin and around 25km SSE of Cihanbeyli (MAMA I, p. xix; MAMA VIII 296; TIB Galatien 223, s.v. Senzusa). Lion-statuettes are a common form of dedication to Meter in her various incarnations; cf. e.g. I.Konya 7 (Meter Zizimene), I.Konya 11 (Meter Tymenene).