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Funerary bomos of Kleopatra and husband
Type of monument
Funerary bomos.
Location
Erice (Sebaste): in the porch of the mosque.
Description
Coarse marblebomos, broken below, upper mouldings cut off. On the front, below the inscription, male and female busts; on left side, writing-tablets and stilus-case.
Dimensions
Ht. 0.81+;
W. 0.44 (shaft);
Th. 0.38 (shaft);
letters 0.025-0.028.
Record
Line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/45).
...constructed the memorial for... daughter of Menandros, also known as Kleopatra, his sweetest wife, who died young, and for himself.
Commentary
The term ταχύμοιρος seems to have been particularly current in the funerary epigraphy of Akmoneia: see MAMA VI 275 (Arslanlar); Michon 1906a: 39-43 (‘Acmonia’); Ramsay, Phrygia II 614, no. 522 (İslâmköy); 615, no. 528 (Hasanköy); 655, no. 575 (İslâmköy); cf. also MAMA X 87 (Appia).