MAMA XI 44 (Eumeneia)

Peter J. Thonemann 2010-07-12

Made available by Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford http://mama.csad.ox.ac.uk/ 2011

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Funerary bomos of Valerius Gaius, Christian, and family

Type of monument

Funerary bomos.

Location

Işıklı (Eumeneia): in a house.

Description

Marble bomos, broken below.

Dimensions

Ht. 0.52+; W. 0.39 (upper moulding), 0.29 (shaft); Th. 0.37 (upper moulding), 0.27 (shaft); letters 0.025.

Record

Squeeze; RB notebook copy (RB 1954/15).

Publication

None.

Date

c. AD 275-300

Edition Οὐαλέριος Γάϊος χριστιανὸς σὺν Οὐαλερίᾳ Ἀν- τωνίᾳ τῇ γυ- ναικὶ Εὐφρο- σύνῃ.

Valerius Gaius, Christian, with his wife Valeria Antonia, for Euphro[syne...].

Commentary

The Christogram in line 2 is also found in a Eumeneian funerary inscription of the late third century, set up by Αὐρ. Γλυκωνίδης Εὐμενεὺς Χρ(ειστιανὸς) ἐπίσκοπος (Buckler, Calder and Cox 1926: 73-4, no. 200; Tabbernee 1997: 220-3, no. 32; cf. also Ramsay, Phrygia II 526-8, no. 371 Eumeneia); MAMA VI 234 (Apameia).

Photographs

Squeeze of MAMA XI 44: 1954-15: Eumeneia 21: Işıklı

Notebook copy of MAMA XI 44: 1954-15: Eumeneia 21: Işıklı