ISic000058: Epitaph for Marcus Lollius Myrtilus
- ID
- ISic000058
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of ILTermini and Mommsen
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Three joining fragments of a marble plaque, intact left, right and above, but broken across the lower edge.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 15.5 cm, width: 33 cm, depth: 2.5-3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin centred on the stone, with the name broken across lines 2-3 to maintain symmetry.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 25mm
- Line 2: 23-27mm
- Line 3: 25-30mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Seen by Bormann in 1867 in collection of an antiquities dealer at Termini, sold in 1873 to Palermo museum with several others. Now in Palermo museum.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3559
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Roman imperial period, with D.M. (AD 50 – AD 250)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285298
- EDR: 127523
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100119
- 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 10.7417
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 59
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 115
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025