MAMA XI 85 (Sebaste)

Peter J. Thonemann 2009-11-04

Made available by Centre for the Study of Ancient Documents, University of Oxford http://mama.csad.ox.ac.uk/ 2010

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Funerary bomos of Paithos and family, Christians
Type of monument

Funerary bomos.

Location

Sebaste: at an ancient site, among rubble from the destruction of an early Christian church, between Pıyanlı and Balıkkaya.

Description

Marble bomos, broken above, with defaced mouldings. On the left side, in relief, hammer and bill-hook; on the right, spindle, distaff and comb.

Dimensions

Ht. 0.74+; W. 0.27-0.28 (shaft); Th. 0.26-0.28 (shaft); letters 0.016-0.020.

Record

Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/44).

Publication

Fıratlı 1970: 120, with Res. 70 (description and photo only); Gibson 1978: 106-7, no. 34; (SEG 28, 1084; Tabbernee 1997: 176-9, no. 23).

Date

Third century AD.

edition Μηνόφιλος καὶ ἡ γυνὴ αὐτοῦ Ἀμμία Παιθῳ ἀ- δελφῷ Χρειστι- ανῷ κὲ Ἀλεξαν- δρία Παιθῳ ἀν- δρὶ κὲ τὰ παιδία αὐτῶν μνείας χάριν ἐπύησαν
Menophilos and his wife Ammia for Paithos, his brother, a Christian; and Alexandria for Paithos, her husband, and their children; they made this, in memoriam.
Commentary

For this type of funerary monument (bomos with relief depictions of domestic objects), which is characteristic of Akmoneia, see MAMA XI 121 (1955/101). This monument was seen and photographed by Fıratlı at Eski Erice in 1970; it was later copied in the Uşak museum by Gibson, who (unaware of Fıratlı’s publication) attributed it to Akmoneia on the grounds of its decorative style. Sheppard 1980: 315 records (not quite accurately) that Ballance recorded its provenance as Pıyanlı; Tabbernee states incorrectly that Ballance found the stone at Payamalanı.

The name Παιθος also appears at Sebaste in MAMA XI 80 (1956/36), and seems otherwise only to be attested at Pessinous in Galatia (I.Pessinous 110). The name is understood to be indigenous by Zgusta 1964: 403 §1191, and by Strubbe 1978/9: 143. It may, however, simply be the Latin name Paetus with an incorrect aspiration (Strubbe 1978/9: 134-5; cf. Brixhe 1987: 110-13); the name Paetus is also attested at Sebaste (MAMA XI 66 [1956/34]).

Photographs

Photograph of MAMA XI 85: 1956-44: Sebaste 21: Between Pıyanlı and Balıkkaya

Drawing of MAMA XI 85: 1956-44: Sebaste 21: Between Pıyanlı and Balıkkaya