ISic000125: I.Sicily inscription 000125
- ID
- ISic000125
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular plaque of compact white limestone. Intact, but chipped upper left corner and with surface corrosion on the front right; some chipping also of the lower front. The left edge and the lower edge are intact, roughly finished. The top edge and teh right edge are intact but cut back behind. The rear is roughly finished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 24.5 cm, width: 34.8 cm, depth: 6.3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of latin letters, the second line centered, the others maintaining a consistent left margin.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 36-48mm
- Line 2: 33-36mm
- Line 3: 32-34mm
- Line 4: 28-33mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in 1826, in Termini Imerese, in piano di S. Antonio outside Porta Girgenti (so Romano)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 99
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-06, on display in the museo civico.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Note the fact that the father was a Roman citizen, since he is referenced with a praenomen in the deceased's name (M.f.), while only using his Greek cognomen in line 3. Bivona suggests he was a freedman from Asia minor on the basis of the son's cognomen.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285265
- EDR: 127481
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100075
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, «Antiche iscrizioni inedite appartenenti alla città di Termini Imerese», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 28 (1829): 289–308, at 292 no.1
- 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 10.7374
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 44
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/16/2025