ISic000081: I.Sicily inscription 000081

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic000081
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based upon poor quality photo in Tullio 1995

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, broken to left and below
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 25 cm, width: 18.7 cm, depth: 5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of five lines of Latin letters, decreasing in size, with uneven right margin.
Text condition
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Cephaloedium
Provenance found
Found in the surface layers of refuse on top of a layer of early modern fill which post-dates 1619, in the north tower of the Duomo of Cefalu cathedral
Map

Current location

Place
Cefalù, Italy
Repository
Autopsy
None

Date

1st — 3rd century CE (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

If the heading 'Dis Manibus' is written out in full over the first two lines, as appears to be the case, this approximately fixes the width of teh stone, and suggests a single female name in genitive or dative on each of lines 3 and 4. The name in line 3 is either ILLAE or ILIAE/

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021