ISic000126: Funerary epitaph for P. Alfesius Salvus
- ID
- ISic000126
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- Text on basis of autopsy;
- 2: Bivona: Salv铆 (i.e. marks an apex, but the letter is merely tall).
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular grey plaque, very well squared, all sides original. Rear is flat. Traces of modern red paint. There is a thin horizontal crack in the upper part of the stone.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 23.5 cm,聽width: 28.5 cm,聽depth: 8.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin text. First two lines are roughly centred, but final two are right-aligned on stone leaving a large vacat on left.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Carving of letters is rough, getting rougher and more inconsistent. Text is angular and haphazard, more pronounced in line 4. Letter heights and depths are inconsistent. Use of serifs and the apex on the 'A' in line 4 is particularly pronounced. Triangular interpuncts of different shapes: lines 1-2, interpuncts are outline triangles, line 4, interpuncts are hollowed out.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 29-33mm
- Line 2: 26-32mm
- Line 3: 42-47mm
- Line 4: 40-42mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese outside the porta di Caccamo (= Porta di Girgenti), in a burial ground.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 105
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 8, shelf 6.
- Map
Date
Bivona attributed to C1 BCE on palaeographic grounds, but it could also be slightly later (100 BC - AD 50)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Whilst the nomen Alfesius is unique, Salvus (or Salvius) is extremely common among freedpersons and enslaves persons.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285264
- EDR: 127480
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100076
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 7375
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 45
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/5/2023