Two New Inscriptions from the Western Necropolis of Nikomedeia

A rescue excavation by the Directorate of the Kocaeli Museum of Archaeology and Ethnography was conducted between 2017 and 2019 in the area where the General Directorate of Izmit Water and Sewerage Administration is located. In the course of these excavations, a new necropolis area was discovered, including five in situ sarcophagi, 51 tile tombs, and two amphora tombs. Among them, four sarcophagi bear funerary inscriptions dating from the Roman period. This paper presents two of these: 1) The tomb of Aurelius Sosianus Asklepiodotos and his family, 2) The tomb of Hermogenes.