ISic000005: Funerary inscription for Marcus Avianius Pistianus, Maria Eupraxia and Marius Eutychianus

ID
ISic000005
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
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Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of CIL checked against photograph

Physical description

Support

Description
Marble plaque, with some pitting to the upper part of the front face, corrosion to the lower front face, and some damage / loss to the lower right corner; the text is complete.
Object type
No data
Material
marble
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 30 cm, width: 44 cm, depth: 1.0-3.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
The text is set out over 8 lines, approximately centred, decreasing in size from top to bottom.
Text condition
complete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 30mm
Line 2-3: 25mm
Line 4: 23-25mm
Line 5: 20-23mm
Line 6-8: 20mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Centuripae
Provenance found
Found in Centuripe and sold to Palermo museum in 1879 by one sig. Salvatore Fallica di Catania

Current location

Place
Palermo, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3505
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

later first or second century CE (AD 51 – AD 200)
Evidence
lettering, textual-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
2/8/2025