Bodel, J. (2026). "Tomb Garden of Iul(ia) Victorin(a) in Scarbantia." Gardens of the Roman Empire, accessed October 2, 2026. https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/124efc8c8f/

Tomb Garden of Iul(ia) Victorin(a) in Scarbantia

Author: John Bodel
Contributors: June Dorsch, Keith Jenkins
Published: 2026-10-01
Last modified: 2026-09-29

Dates

3rd century

Garden Description

A limestone funerary stele of probably third century date unearthed in 1973 near Scarbantia at Winder am See (Burgenland) and now in the Burgenländische Landesmuseum at Eisenstadt records an epitaph set up by Septimius Alcides, a veteran of the legio XIII Gemina Iulia, for his wife, Iul(ia) Victorin(a), dead at thirty, for whom he built at his own expense a funerary pleasure garden (viridarium).

Bibliography

  • AE 1973, 433.
  • Epigraphische Datenbank Heidelberg HD011378.

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