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Votive bomos to Meter Ammlasenzosene

Type of monument:
Votive bomos.
Location:
Zıvarık (Altınekin) (Northern Lykaonia): in a house.
Description:
Greyish-white marble bomos, broken below.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.33+; W. 0.26 (upper moulding), 0.20 (shaft); Th. 0.22 (upper moulding), 0.17 (shaft); letters 0.020-0.025.
Record:
Squeeze; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/154=5366).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Roman imperial period.
 
 

Αμ̣μλ̣α̣σ̣ενζοσ(ηνῇ?)
{Ν} εὐχήν
To (Meter) Ammlasenzos(ene) (?), in fulfillment of a vow.

The reading in the first half of line 1 is very doubtful, but the sequence ΕΝΖΟ, with a lunate sigma placed above the omicron at the end of the line, is certain. I have tentatively assumed that this is a votive monument to the Meter Amlasenzene (cf. MAMA XI 256 (1957/90); I.Konya 14), with a variant form of her epithet (Ammlasenzosene for Amlasenzene). The find-spot of this inscription provides some support for the notion (see the commentary to MAMA XI 256) that the cult of Meter Amlasenzene was in some way connected to the village of Σενζουσα, securely located at Toprakkale, 19km NNE of Zıvarık/Altınekin (MAMA I, p. xix; MAMA VIII 296; TIB Galatien 223, s.v. Senzusa).

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 276 (Northern Lykaonia 2: 1956-154)

MAMA XI 276 (Northern Lykaonia 2: 1956-154)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 276 (Northern Lykaonia 2: 1956-154)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 276 (Northern Lykaonia 2: 1956-154)