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Abstract
The Tertullus Monument, the tomb of M. Vibius Tertullus and his family, is one of the most elaborate mausolea from the Yasmina cemetery at Carthage. Constructed in the second century CE, the architecture of the monument belongs to a well-known category of tower tombs, an indigenous style of funerary architecture once common throughout North Africa. The iconography of the monument, however, draws from a distinctly Roman repertory of funerary art to convey the romanitas of the patron. While the architecture and the iconography illustrate the cultural duality at Roman Carthage, they simultaneously reveal the status and the role of the Vibii at Carthage. The images of horsemen from the monument, in light of equine scenes from elsewhere at Carthage, suggest that the Vibii were prominent horse-breeders. Epigraphic evidence from both the monument and the Yasmina cemetery seems to support this and suggests that the Vibii occupied some municipal office.