ISic000055: I.Sicily inscription 000055
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of ILTermini checked against photograph and commentary;
- 1: Given that Bivona reports a letter of Salinas of 1879 which read the initial [-]V, it is unclear why that should not be reported in the text; it remains entirely uncertain whether the missing initial letter should be O or A. Note that two verticals appear close together for the second I of the initial name, but whether this signifies II, E, or even IL is unclear (and all editions simply print I).
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque broken into multiple fragments and restored; missing the upper left corner and part of the upper margin.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 31 cm, width: 38.5 cm, depth: 2 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin centred on the stone and reducing in height over the four lines.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Letters tending to the taller and narrower module, somewhat irregular in spacing, with upward curving horizontals to many strokes and simple bar serifs.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 40-45mm
- Line 2: 38-45mm
- Line 3: 30-35mm
- Line 4: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Seen by Bormann in 1867 in an antiquities dealer's establishment in Termini Imerese.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 3555
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
The text is suggested by Bivona and Manganaro to be fourth or fifth century on the basis of the orthography (e.g. 'queralla'), but such a late date for a funerary formula of this sort seems relatively unlikely and a date in the third century should not be excluded. (AD 201 - AD 500)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285030
- EDR: 110920
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100068
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 7367
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 55
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 49
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 36
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/25/2026