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Votive bomos to Augusti

Type of monument:
Votive bomos.
Location:
İpekler (formerly Köpekler) (Perta): in a yard.
Description:
Grey marble bomos with upper and lower mouldings; on the shaft, bucrania at each of the four corners, with garlands suspended between them; at the centre of each garland, a six-pointed rosette in a circle. Inscription on the upper moulding.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.77; W. 0.46 (upper moulding), 0.43 (shaft), 0.47 (base); Th. 0.48 (upper moulding), 0.46 (shaft), 0.52 (base); letters 0.040.
Record:
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/181).
Publication:
MAMA VIII 262.
Date:
Roman imperial period.
 
 

Θεοῖς Σεβα̣[σ|τοῖς]
To the divine Augusti.

There is only space for one more letter at the right-hand end of the front moulding; presumably the inscription continued round onto the right face of the altar.

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 315 (Perta 10: 1956-181)

MAMA XI 315 (Perta 10: 1956-181)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 315 (Perta 10: 1956-181)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 315 (Perta 10: 1956-181)