ISic000003: Epitaph for Culucuitas
- ID
- ISic000003
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- No data
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text controlled against photograph ;
- line.3: Mommsen (after Alessi): IYCHE·FHER·M·FE; Ferrua: Tyche et Herm(es) fec(erunt); Bivona: Tyche et Her(mes) fe(cerunt); Manganaro: Tyche et Herm̂a fec(erunt).
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular marble plaque, somewhat uneven along the upper edge. Borken in two down the middle, but rejoined. Slight chipping to the lower edge.
- Object type
- No data
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 14 cm, width: 31 cm, depth: 2-3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Horizontal guidelines between lines, but almost no interlineation. The text maintains left and right margins (with guideline indicating an outer right margin), with words broken across lines or abbreviated to maintain the margins. Interpuncts mark the ends of lines 2 and 3.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 28mm
- Line 2-3: 30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in area of Piazza Stesicoro (area of a Roman necropolis), Catania
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3503
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
second or third century CE (AD 101 – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Despite the good preservation of the stone, not one editor has so far correctly reported the final line. Mommsen did not see the stone and was only able to report the garbled reading of Alessi, in Giornale del gab. lett. dell' Acc. Gioenia 3 (1834), p.18 (non vidi). Ferrua and Manganaro both mistakenly reported the presence of a final C on the line; Bivona mistakenly reported the final name as only HER on the stone; Manganaro argued that the final M of Herm(es) in fact is MA in ligature and so Herma, but the supposed trace of a possible cross-bar on the second half of the M, to give A, appears to be part of adjacent damage on the stone, besides the implausibility of the female name in context, and the original reading of Herm(es) seems far preferable.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491590
- EDR: 141191
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900419
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 10.7097
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 268 no.39
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 3
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 171 no.37(tris) fig.41
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Robert Crellin
- Last revision
- 5/1/2025