https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/3081b51bd4/Recent content in Nanzianus on Gardens of the Roman EmpireHugoen-usThu, 01 Oct 2026 22:49:02 -0400https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/d67532e9dd/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/d67532e9dd/<h2 id="dates">Dates</h2> <p>unspecified</p> <!-- ## Excavation Dates --> <h2 id="garden-description">Garden Description</h2> <p>A gravestone <!--[(SEG 12:510)](https://inscriptions.packhum.org/text/287326?hs=19-25%2C62-69)-->found at Sorsovu identifies “the monument and garden (<em>peribolo</em>) of Athenais the daughter of Xennios&quot; (<em>Ἀθηναΐδι τῇ Ξεννίου σῆμα καὶ τὸ περιβόλι</em>), and calls down incurable disease on any who wish to harm them. Here it seems, as more often in western Asia Minor, a tomb garden is identified metonymically by reference to its perimeter wall.</p> <!-- ## Maps <figure> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roman-gardens/gre-images/main/content/place/galatia_et_cappadocia/nanzianus/filename.jpg" alt="" onclick="fullscreen(this)"> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> --> <!-- ## Plans <figure> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roman-gardens/gre-images/main/content/place/galatia_et_cappadocia/nanzianus/filename.jpg" alt="" onclick="fullscreen(this)"> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> --> <!-- ## Images <figure> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roman-gardens/gre-images/main/content/place/galatia_et_cappadocia/nanzianus/filename.jpg" alt="" onclick="fullscreen(this)"> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> --> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul> <li>Bull. Épigr. 1939:448. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/6820232" target="_blank">(worldcat)</a>; <a href="https://www.jstor.org/stable/44271747" target="_blank">(JStor)</a>;</li> <li>J. Kubińska, <em>Les monuments funéraires dans les inscriptions grecques de l’Asie Mineure</em>. Warsaw, 1968, pp. 144. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/8740190" target="_blank">(worldcat)</a></li> </ul> <h2 id="keywords">Keywords</h2> <ul> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/search/?q=periboloi">periboloi</a> (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300005069" title="Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)">AAT:300005069</a>) </li> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/search/?q=inscriptions">inscriptions</a> (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300028702" title="Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)">AAT:300028702</a>) </li> </ul> <!-- ## Places Perhaps https://www.trismegistos.org/place/63380 -->