ISic000001: Funerary inscription of Zethus
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Apparatus criticus
- Text edited by Prag from photograph ;
- 3: Mommsen: vixit
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque, employed as cover of a small sarcophagus
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 17.5 cm,聽width: 29.3 cm,聽depth: 1.5-2 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines, roughly centered, but not perfectly perpendicular to the stone
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 32-35mm
- Line 2: 35mm
- Line 3: 30-32mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Caltanissetta
- Provenance found
- Found in 'feudo Landri di Placido Notarbartolo duca di Villarosa', in the territory of Caltanissetta in 1782; now on display on the first floor of the Palermo Museum.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 3501
- Autopsy
- Observed and photographed 2025
- Map
Date
between later 1st and 3rd century CE (AD 51 - AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491696
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900531
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl. 14 no. 147
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 7190
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/1/2025