MAMA XI 115 (Akmoneia) 
Latin funerary inscription of L. Aelius Venustus and others
- Type of monument:
- Funerary inscription.
- Location:
- Susuz (Akmoneia): in a fountain (Kırkpınarlar Çeşmesi).
- Description:
- White marble block with tabula ansata, apparently complete.
- Dimensions:
- Ht. 0.65; W. 0.73; Th. --; letters 0.022-0.028.
- Record:
- Partial squeeze (lines 5-8); MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/61).
- Publication:
- Thonemann 2010: 170-1.
- Date:
- Late first century AD (prosopography)
hed. V(ivi) hed.
L · Aelius · L·f · Fab · Ve-
nustus · Tyrrani-
ae · Veneriae · uxo-
5ri · suae · et · sibi · 〚et〛
〚M · Iuni〛 · et · M · Iuni-
us · M · f · Sab · Lupus
Aeliae · L · f · Mar-
cellae · uxori hed.
10suae · et · sibi
They are living. L(ucius) Aelius Venustus, son of L(ucius), of the tribe Fab(ia), for his wife, Tyrannia Veneria, and himself; and M(arcus) Iunius Lupus, son of M(arcus), of the tribe Sabatina, for his wife, Aelia Marcella, daughter of L(ucius), and himself.
Illustrations:
Photograph of MAMA XI 115 (Akmoneia 17: 1956-61)
Partial squeeze of MAMA XI 115 (Akmoneia 17: 1956-61)
M. Iunius M. f. Sabatina Lupus is attested as a member of the archon-college at Akmoneia in AE 2006, 1426 (dated to 8 April AD 68), and as one of the city’s three dogmatographoi in AE 2006, 1427 (dated to 17 September AD 64). The fact that his funerary inscription was set up in Latin makes it clear that he was a member of the community of resident Romans (οἱ κατοικοῦντες Ῥωμαῖοι: Ramsay, Phrygia II 641, no. 533 [IGR IV 632]), not a native of Akmoneia.
The name Venustus reappears at Akmoneia in the mid-second century AD (M. Ulpius Venustus Vibianus, attested in two unpublished lists of Akmoneian delegates to Claros dated to the mid-140s: information courtesy of J.-L. Ferrary).