ISic000131: Funerary inscription for M. Antonius Natalis
- ID
- ISic000131
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after autopsy ;
- 1: Although "M" on line 1 appears to be "MA" in ligature, this is an illusion created by flakes on surface of stone
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large grey/brown limestone cippus. Tapers to bottom on both sides, with abrasions on top and left edges. Rear is relatively flat. Modern flecks of red paint on sides and back.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 75 cm, width: 41 cm, depth: 13 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, roughly centred, in top 1/3 of cippus. Abrasions on surface near text. Large, roughly triangular interpuncts.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 36-39mm
- Line 2: 36-41mm
- Line 3: 40-42mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese prior to 1829 next to the burial to which it belonged, near the garden of the pp. Cappuccini, in the place known as "Cannitello" (so Romano).
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 67
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, on the floor of room 1.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
M. Antonius is common in Sicily, and as Bivona (1994) points out, there is likely some connection in this with Marcus Antonius, the father of the triumvir, who plundered Sicily in the war against the pirates. Bivona (1994) also notes that the cognomen Natalis is common among the enslaved and freedmen. It is attested elsewhere in Sicily, see e.g. ISic003465, and ISic003645.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285121
- EDR: 111012
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100077
- 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 299 no.6
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 94 no.6
- 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 10.7376
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 50
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/16/2025