ISic000008: Epitaph for Vibia Pothine
- ID
- ISic000008
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph ;
- line.2: Bivona: Vibia Erothine
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A stele of the local volcanic stone.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- volcanic (pietra lavica locale)
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 59 cm, width: 36.5 cm, depth: 11.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is centred on the stone, with some use of spacing between words.
- Text condition
- complete #text_condition, legible
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 45mm
- Lines 2-3: 40mm
- Lines 4-5: 30-35mm
- Line 6: 30-40mm
- Lines 7-8: 30-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lipara
- Provenance found
- Found on Lipari in 1907 and given to the Palermo Museum by sig. Luigi Mancuso
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3508
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- textual-context, nomenclature
Text type
commentary
Raepsaet-Charlier corrected the erroneous reading of Bivona of line 2.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1975.0450
- Guido Libertini, Le isole eolie nell’antichità greca e romana. Ricerche storiche ed archeologiche (Florence, 1921), at 229 no.6
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 8
- M.-Th. Raepsaet-Charlier, « A propos du récent catalogue d’inscriptions latines du musée de Palerme », Latomus 33 (1974): 124‑27, at 124-125
- L. Bernabò Brea e M. Cavalier, «Lipari (isola). Fonti epigrafiche», in Bibliografia topografica della colonizzazione greca in Italia e nelle isole tirreniche, a c. di G. Nenci e G. Vallet, vol. 9 (Pisa: Scuola Normal Superiore di Pisa, 1991), 84–109, at 101
- L. Bernabò Brea, M. Cavalier, e L. Campagna, Meligunìs Lipára. XII. Le iscrizioni lapidarie greche e latine delle isole eolie (Palermo: Mario Grispo Editore, 2003), at 780
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
- 7/3/2025