ISic000041: Funerary epitaph for Cn. Caninius Anicetus
- ID
- ISic000041
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of ILPalermo checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A plaque in the local red breccia
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- breccia (di San Marco)
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 44.5 cm, width: 42.5 cm, depth: 4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is centred, with almost a full blank line between the name of the deceased and the phrase recording the dedicant.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Deeply cut, compact letters, with some serifs and some curved elements; relatively wide module.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 25-30mm
- Line 3: 20-30mm
- Line 4: 23mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Sant'Agata di Militello
- Provenance found
- Found in situ covering a tomb, in area of via s. Giuseppe, under an overpass of the Palermo-Messina railway at km.124 + 436
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3542
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
first century CE (AD 1 - AD 100)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175716
- EDR: 076312
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 9400438
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 472-473
- « 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 1975.0451
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 42
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/30/2025