ISic000059: Epitaph for Publicia Agatha and Publicius Brutanus
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of ILTermini ;
- 2: omitted by Fazello
- 4: Fazello: D.S.P.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A thick rectangular plaque of limestone.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 24 cm,聽width: 39 cm,聽depth: 11 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- inorganic.stone > unverified
Inscription
- Layout
- Four centred lines of text, of which the second is much smaller, squeezed between lines 1 and 3; ordinatio not fully planned.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
The letters are somewhat crudely cut, with a flat profile channel, and irregular module. The final letters of line 3 are stacked above the line due to lack of space.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 40mm
- Line 2: 20mm
- Line 3: 35-45mm
- Line 4: 30-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Observed in Termini by Gualtherus
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
- 3560
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 - AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bivona suggests that the name 'Publicia/us' implies former public slaves, subsequently freed.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285301
- EDR: 127527
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100134
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Tommaso Fazello, F. Thom忙 Fazelli... de rebus Siculis decades du忙 (Panormi, 1558), at Decade 1, Liber 9, p.195
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at 104
- G. Gualtherus, Sicili忙 obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiqu忙 tabul忙, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 261
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl.14, no.108
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl.14, no.124
- 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 7432
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 60
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 135
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/25/2026