ISic000128: Funerary inscription for Publius Antistius Cavarianus
- ID
- ISic000128
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Grey plaque in local limestone, extremely square and in good condition, although chips at bottom left and bottom right. Rear is mostly flat, but with a slight protusion roughly in the centre
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 29.5 cm, width: 38 cm, depth: 13.5 (not including the slight protrusion at rear) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin letters. First line is centred on stone, but lines 2-3 off centre. Text drifts upwards to the top right. Large vacat at bottom of stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 29-46mm
- Line 2: 43-48mm
- Line 3: 27-35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the piece is assumed to come from Termini Imerese
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 35
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-06. On display in Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Roman citizens of the Claudia tribe are attested elsewhere in Thermae Himeraeae, see e.g. ISic000094 and ISic000103. While Antistius has only one other possible epigraphic attestation in Sicily ISic003400, of a Roman legate with propraetorian power, a certain Roman C. Antistius is mentioned by Cicero (Verr. 2.3.167) as responsible for tax arrangements in Sicily. The cognomen Cavarianus only has two other certain attestations (CIL 13.1144, CAG-02, p164) one in Aquitania and the other in Belgica. The cognomen Cavarius is more frequently attested, but not in Sicily
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175694
- EDR: 077913
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900391
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1980.0513
- Livia Bivona, «Nuove iscrizioni di Termini Imerese (Palermo)», Atti della Accademia di Scienze, Lettere a Arti di Palermo Ser.4, 35, fasc. 2 (1976 1975): 531–58, at 535 no.1 tav.1
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 47
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/16/2025