ISic000119: I.Sicily inscription 000119
- ID
- ISic000119
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Fazello and Gualtherus ;
- 2: Gualtherus 1624[1625]: ADVENIO
- 4: Fazello: CONIUGI
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Most likely a marble funerary plaque, but no information is provided by Fazello or Gualtherus (Bitto places unjustified faith in Gualtherus' placing of the text within the form of a base with mouldings top and bottom, ignoring the fact that this is a standard generic way of framing a text in Gualtherus' edition).
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Fazello records hederae in lines 1 and 3, Gualtherus in line 1 only.
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded in Termini Imerese by Fazello, as one of several texts in private houses in the town, in this case specifically 'in domo Garofali'. Gualtherus subsequently (1624) recorded it among the inscriptions of Messana, where he saw it 'in vico Byzantinorum apud Pet. Stagnum eq.'
Current location
Gualtherus offers the last eye-witness account and it has not been seen since.
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The reports in Fazello and Gualtherus make it highly likely that this stone was originally found in Termini (like the others attested in private houses in the 16th and 17th century in the town), but was subsequently transferred to a collector in Messana, where Gualtherus saw it. Bitto provides an extended discussion of the onomastics, but the assumption that it is from Messana is unjustified, and her attribution of the reading 'Adventus' to a correction of Mommsen is to ignore the original report in Fazello / misread Mommsen's apparatus. It seems preferable however to follow Gualtherus' report of the form 'coiugi' over Fazello's likely 'normalisation' of 'coniugi'.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- Printed editions
- Tommaso Fazello, F. Thomæ Fazelli... de rebus Siculis decades duæ (Panormi, 1558), at Prioris Decadis, Liber Nonus, p.194
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at no. 155
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at no.10
- 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 133 cl.11 no.2
- 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 139 cl.11 no.2
- 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 10.7369
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 38
- Irma Bitto, Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Messina, vol. 1, Pelorias 7 (Messina: Dipartimento di Scienze dell’Antichità dell’Università degli Studi di Messina, 2001), at xx
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025