ISic000057: Epitaph for Laelia Coprilla
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of ILTermini (note that the line divider between lines 4 and 5 is there omitted)
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A thick square plaque of limestone
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 36 cm, width: 36 cm, depth: 15.5 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is centred on the stone, with the last line much smaller
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Plainly cut letters, or a fairly tall and narrow module, with simple bar serifs; C and O remain quite wide.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 50-60mm
- Line 5: 20-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Observed in Termini already by Gualtherus 1624.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 3558
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
First or second century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The style of plaque, a thick heavy square block of this sort is quite typical for Thermae Himeraeae.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285311
- EDR: 127541
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100105
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at 105
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 262
- 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 7403
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 58
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 50
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 96
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/25/2026