MAMA XI 267 (Laodikeia) 
Funerary bomos of Zoe, Mamas and Mikas
- Type of monument:
- Funerary bomos.
- Location:
- Ladık (Laodikeia): in the wall of the school.
- Description:
- Grey marble bomos, complete. Inscription on upper moulding between acroteria. On the shaft, arched aedicula with two full-length figures in relief, male in toga and female in veil and pallia.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 1.57; W. 0.66 (upper moulding), 0.51 (shaft), 0.63 (base); Th. 0.59 (upper moulding), 0.48 (shaft), 0.56 (base); letters 0.030.
- Record:
- MB notebook copy; photograph (1957/104=5933-4).
- Publication:
- None.
- Date:
- Roman imperial period.
Ζόη ⟨ἡ⟩ κὲ Ἀμεντιανὴ
Μαμᾳ πατρὶ κὲ Μικᾷ
τῷ ἰδίῳ ἀν-
δρὶ κὲ ἑαυτῇ ζῶ-
5 σα μνήμης
χάριν.
Line 1: ΖΟΗC κὲ
Zoe, also known as Amyntiane, for her father Mamas and for her own husband Mikas and for herself, in memoriam.
Illustrations:
MAMA XI 267 (Laodikeia 14: 1957-104)
MAMA XI 267 (Laodikeia 14: 1957-104)
I can only make sense of line 1 on the assumption that the mason inscribed a lunate sigma for an eta. The name Ἀμεντιανή is the patronymic form of the common Greek name Ἀμύντας, with epsilon for upsilon: cf. RECAM II 202, 229; I.Pessinous 82. For the name Μαμας, see Zgusta 1964: 282-3 §850-3. The name Μικᾶς, apparently unattested elsewhere, is a regularly-formed Greek name meaning ‘small’: cf. MAMA XI 318 (1956/167: Perta); Robert 1963: 56-7; Zgusta 1964: 315 §916; Drew-Bear 1978: 108-9; BE 2009, 494.