ISic000054: Funerary inscription for Clovatia Tertia and her daughter Clovatia Optata

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2022-05-23.
ID
ISic000054
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from photograph

Physical description

Support

Description
A marble plaque, intact above, below and left, broken lower right.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 34 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 7 cm

Inscription

Layout
Text is approximately centered on the stone with five lines of varying length and spacing.
Text condition
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: 55-60mm
Line 2: 50mm
Line 3-4: 40-45mm
Line 5: 40mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found in Termini Imerese by one Giuseppe Di Giorgi, and acquired from him by Palermo Museum in 1873, along with several others (incl. ISic000055)

Current location

Place
Palermo, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3557
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

first or second century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/24/2025