ISic000124: I.Sicily inscription 000124

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell鈥橧dentit脿 Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell鈥橧dentit脿 Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2023-07-07.
ID
ISic000124
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
A white marble plaque broken into five joining fragments; small fragments missing from start of line 1, upper middle edge and lower right corner, but text is complete. Rear is flat and uniform.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 15.5 cm,聽width: 34-31 (top to bottom) cm,聽depth: 1.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Two lines of Latin letters centered on the stone. Guidlines above and below both lines, with incised lines marking the left and right border also.
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Thin, tall, elegant v-cut letters, serifed, with horizontal strokes tending upwards (and breaking the guidelines); interpuncts formed by two strokes at right angles; use of ligature in line 1.

Letter heights
Line 1: 48-50 (F = 53)mm
Line 2: 47-53mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Recovered during excavation for a water pipe in via Vittorio Amedeo, together with an urn formed of limestone slabs containing a ceramic vase with skeletal remains, which was however not preserved.
Map

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 30ae
Autopsy
Alex Antoniou, 2023-07-07, storeroom of the Museo Civico
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 101 - AD 300)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/13/2025