ISic000051: Funerary inscription for Publius Edusius Basilides
- ID
- ISic000051
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph;
- 1: Ferrua: [D] M S
- 4: Bivona: an(nis)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small marble plaque, with a somewhat corroded surface and some chipping to the edges.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 23 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 2.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin, first line cnetred, lines 2-4 with consistent left margin; guidelines visible top and bottom of each line.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30mm
- Line 2: 30-33mm
- Line 3: 32-35mm
- Line 4: 30-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found by Salvatore Lo Giudice in 1887 in Taormina, 'nel terreno ove sono posti i sepolcri romani che fiancheggiano lo stradale che introduce a Taormina' (Bivona, quoting archival material of the museum)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3552
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
later 1st or 2nd century CE (AD 50 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Wrongly attributed to Palermo by Ferrua.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175717
- EDR: 076313
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 9400439
- PHI: -
- 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 1975.0452
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 267 no.36
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 52
- Francesco Muscolino, «Epigrafi funerarie greche e latine di Taormina», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 87–88 (2012 2011): 209–48, at 238 L3 fig.15
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 7/31/2024