MAMA XI 260 (Laodikeia) 
Funerary bomos of Aurelius Eros and Aurelia Doude
- Type of monument:
- Funerary bomos.
- Location:
- Ladık (Laodikeia): in the wall of the school.
- Description:
- Grey marble bomos, complete, with mouldings above and below. Inscription in inset panel on shaft.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.58; W. 0.71 (upper moulding), 0.57 (shaft), 0.69 (base); Th. 0.62 (upper moulding), 0.55 (shaft), 0.57+ (base); letters 0.025-0.035.
- Record:
- Squeeze; AH notebook copy; photograph (1957/111=5940).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Third century AD.
Αὐρήλιος hed.
Ἔρως καὶ Αὐ-
ρηλίᾳ Δουδῃ
γυνεκὶ γλυκυ-
5τάτῃ μνήμης
χάριν καὶ ἑαυ-
τὸς ζῶν.
hed. hed.
Aurelius Eros, and for Aurelia Doude, his sweetest wife, in memoriam, and himself, while he was still living.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 260 (Laodikeia 7: 1957-111)
Squeeze of MAMA XI 260 (Laodikeia 7: 1957-111)
The text of this inscription is a little garbled; I assume that the mason originally intended to inscribe ⟨ἑαυτῷ⟩ καὶ Αὐρηλίᾳ κτλ. in lines 2-3, and on noticing his omission, added the (ungrammatical) phrase καὶ ἑαυτὸς in lines 6-7. Curiously, the mason of MAMA XI 258 (1957/88), also built into the wall of the school at Ladık, seems to have made exactly the same error. For the indigenous name Δουδη/Δουδα, see the commentary to MAMA XI 258.