Tombs as archives! At Oinoanda in southern Turkey, a woman named Leinia Favilla had 12 generations of her family's genealogy carved onto her tomb walls. Elsewhere, a man called Opramo covered his mausoleum with transcribed letters documenting his civic gifts. These funerary inscriptions offer an extraordinary window into elite lives in Roman Anatolia.
Funerary inscriptions at Oinoanda and Asia Minor preserve elite family genealogies and civic correspondence
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- Leidina's leather slippers and moss hat were preserved by waterlogged soil in Roman Egypt
- At Oinoanda in southern Turkey, a wealthy woman named Leinia Favilla traced 12 generations of her family's genealogy on the walls of her tomb
- Opramo, a magnate from Asia Minor, had his mausoleum covered with dozens of transcribed letters documenting his gifts to neighboring cities
- Funerary inscriptions can be remarkably detailed sources for elite ancient lives
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