https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/fe62bf854c/Recent content in Vasada on Gardens of the Roman EmpireHugoen-usFri, 02 Oct 2026 01:22:22 -0400https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/b12b517e00/Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 +0000https://roman-gardens.github.io/id/b12b517e00/<h2 id="dates">Dates</h2> <p>second or third century CE</p> <h2 id="excavation-dates">Excavation Dates</h2> <p>unspecified</p> <h2 id="garden-description">Garden Description</h2> <p>A grave stele found near Vasada records an epitaph of perhaps second or third century date set up by a veteran secretary of the Roman army (<em>a commentariis</em>), Quaternius Munnienus, and his wife, Valeria Valeriana, who set up for themselves a tomb and surrounding pleasure garden (<em>paradeisos</em>). <!--Greek text of inscription (Sterrett, WE 171,280) here: https://inscriptions.packhum.org/text/275873?hs=45-52--></p> <!-- ## Maps <figure> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roman-gardens/gre-images/main/content/place/pisidia/vasada/filename.jpg" alt="" onclick="fullscreen(this)"> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> --> <!-- ## Plans <figure> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roman-gardens/gre-images/main/content/place/pisidia/vasada/filename.jpg" alt="" onclick="fullscreen(this)"> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> --> <!-- ## Images <figure> <img src="https://raw.githubusercontent.com/roman-gardens/gre-images/main/content/place/pisidia/vasada/filename.jpg" alt="" onclick="fullscreen(this)"> <figcaption> </figcaption> </figure> --> <h2 id="bibliography">Bibliography</h2> <ul> <li>J. R. S. Sterrett, “The Wolfe Expedition to Asia Minor,” <em>Papers of the ASCSA 3</em>, 1884/5 (1888), no. 280. <a href="https://search.worldcat.org/title/4568100" target="_blank">(worldcat)</a>; <a href="https://hdl.handle.net/2027/hvd.hn349f" target="_blank">(Hathi Trust)</a></li> <li>J. Kubińska, <em>Les monuments funéraires dans les inscriptions grecques de l’Asie Mineure</em>. Warsaw, 1968, p. 143. <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=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> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/search/?q=tombs">tombs</a> (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300005926" title="Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)">AAT:300005926</a>) </li> <li> <a href="https://roman-gardens.github.io/search/?q=paradise gardens">paradise gardens</a> (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/aat/300008112" title="Art and Architecture Thesaurus (Getty)">AAT:300008112</a>) </li> </ul> <!-- ## Places places containing this garden will be listed automatically - (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="https://pleiades.stoa.org/places" title="Pleiades gazetteer of ancient places">Pleiades:</a>) <br> - (<a class="id" target="_blank" href="http://vocab.getty.edu/page/tgn" title="Thesaurus of Geographic Names (Getty)">TGN:</a>) <br> -->