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ROMAN PELOPONNESE I
Suppl. XIV (1974) 845-846, s.v. Vettulenus [2]. His cursus honorum includes the
functions of consul, triumvir monetalis aere argento auro flando feriundo, sodalis
Antoninianus, sodalis Verianus, quaestor, praetor.
see also ARG 263.
336. ΛΟΥΚΙΟΣ ΒΕΤ(Ι)ΛΗΝΟΣ ΦΛΩΡΟΣ
[1] /ν0 226 facsimile [A.D. 53].
Olympia; plaque of Pentelic marble from the facing of a large pedestal, commemorating the
equestrian Olympic victory of Tib. Claudius Aphrodisius. The monument was financed by L.
Vettulenus Florus:
Τιβέριον Κλαύδιον Ι Αψροδείσιον, νεικήΐσαντα κέλητι τελείω Ι επί της ση' "Ολυμπιάδος, Ι
Λούκιος Βετιληνός Φλώρος Διί Όλυμπίω.
[2] ΙνΟ435 facsimile [1st c. A.D.].
Olympia; a statue base of Pentelic marble erected by the polis of Elis for his wife Claudia
Alcinoa:
[Ή π]όλις Ήλ[είων] Ι [Κ]λαυδίαν "Αλκιν[όαν] Ι Κλαυδίου ΘεογέΙνους καί Ιουλίας Ι 5 Χρυ-
σαρέτας θυγαΐτέρα καί Λουκίου Ι Βετληνου Φλώρου Ι γυναίκα πάσης ενεΐκεν αρετής.
Remarks: About him and his prominent family, the members of which are attested in the Elean
inscriptions from the 1st to the 3rd c. A.D., see S. Zoumbaki, "Zu einer neuen
Inschrift aus Olympia: Die Familie der Vettuleni von Elis", ZPE 99, 1993, 227-232
(AnnÉpigr 1993, 1415; SEG 44, 1994, 389); id., Elis und Olympia, Β 12 and for the
family Β 10; cf. below EL 337.
h. Claudia Alcinoa (EL 114), f. L. Vettulenus Laetus (EL 339), see M. Vettulenus Laetus I (EL
337); for the stemma of the family see Appendix, Stemma XV.
337. ΜΑΡΚΟΣ ΒΕΤΛΗΝΟΣ ΛΑΙΤΟΣ (I)
7ν0 233 (facsimile)+BCH 114, 1990, 746-748 [A.D. 21].
Olympia; a marble plaque from the monument commemorating the Olympic equestrian
victory of his daughter Cassia (text EL 108).
Remarks: About him, his family and the distinction of the homonymous person EL 338 see
Zoumbaki, Elis und Olympia, Β 10. He is the first attested member of a prominent
Elean family, the members of which are to be attested from the 1st to the 3rd c. A.D.
Many Vettuleni held important offices and one of them, L. Vettulenus Laetus (EL
339) held the first office of the Roman equestrian cursus, that of tribunus militum.
The Elean Vettuleni are most possibly the descendants of Italians residents in Eleia,
see S. Zoumbaki, "Zu einer neuen Inschrift aus Olympia: Die Familie der Vettuleni
von Elis", ZPE 99, 1993, 227-232 (AnnÉpigr 1993, 1415; SEG 44, 1994, 389). For
the diffusion of their gentilicium see EL 332.
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