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Funerary inscription of Vibianus

Type of monument:
Funerary inscription.
Location:
Yağlıbayat (Savatra): in a yard, said to come from above the village.
Description:
Grey marble slab, roughly cut; broken below. Below the inscription, incised monogrammatic cross in circle.
Dimensions:
Ht. 0.58+; W. 0.61; Th. 0.08; letters 0.025-0.065.
Record:
Squeeze; line drawing; MB notebook copy; photograph (1956/201).
Publication:
None.
Date:
Fourth to sixth century AD.
 
 

τῷ γλυκυτά-
τῳ μου ἀνδρὶ̣
Βεβιανῷ Σωσάν-
να τῷ ἰδίῳ ἀν-
5δρὶ μνήμης
χάριν
ἀνέστησεν.
Susanna set this up for my sweetest husband Vibianus, my own husband, in memoriam.

For the name Susanna at Savatra, cf. MAMA XI 350 (1956/196). For the name Vibius/Vibianus in this region, see Ramsay 1888: 250-1, no. 50 (Laodikeia: Vibianus); Calder 1912a: 54, no. 6 (M. Vibius Valens, Konya)

Illustrations:

MAMA XI 351 (Savatra 9: 1956-201)

MAMA XI 351 (Savatra 9: 1956-201)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 351 (Savatra 9: 1956-201)

Squeeze of MAMA XI 351 (Savatra 9: 1956-201)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 351 (Savatra 9: 1956-201)

Line drawing of MAMA XI 351 (Savatra 9: 1956-201)