title: Was Aurelius Viator a Soldier?
abstract: The article is devoted to three tombstones from the excavations of Chersonesos in Taurica. Two gravestones preserved the names of the buried persons: Aurelius Viator and Sabinus; the third is nameless. The portraits of the buried are carved on the monuments. Each of them holds a bird in his hands. Judging by numerous analogies, birds were a common attribute of children's funeral portraits in antiquity and became a symbolic indication of childhood, as they were common pets. Keeping and caring for
journal: Vestnik drevnei istorii