152. Epitaph of Victorinus, praefectus vehiculorum

Monument: A white marble sarcophagus (H. 0.30, W. 1.80) from which part of the front and of the lower sides has been carefully removed. It seems likely, but not certain, that this second inscription should be associated with the cutting away of the front, although it is difficult to envisage how the stone was then used - perhaps to support a coffin?
Text: a, not published here, a standard funerary text of the second century surviving in two lines of the lower part of the inscribed tabella ansata, and in one line on the lower moulding. b, published here, was cut along the upper edge of the back of the sarcophagus.
Letters: Standard forms, except for cursive omega and sigma.
Date: Late third/early fourth century (titulature).

	ἐνθάδε κεῖτε Βικτωρεῖνος ἀπὸ πρωτηκτόρων ἔπαρχος vac.
	βεκούλων.

Here lies Victorinus, former protector, praefectus vehiculorum.

Face (1985)

See discussion at IX.12, and for the phrasing, IX.39.

Recording: Excavated by the NYU expedition in 1984.
Bibliography: Published by Roueché, Aphrodisias in Late Antiquity no 152 and plate xxxv, whence PHI 516.
Text constituted from: Transcription (Roueché).

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