ISic000132: Funerary inscription of Aquillius Agathon
- ID
- ISic000132
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 1: It is unclear whether the mark across the top of the I is an apex or damage.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A small plaque of yellow-white marble, worn on the surface, and heavily abraded on the left side; the rear finished smooth. Traces of mortar and red paint on the sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 20.5 cm,聽width: 2.05 cm,聽depth: 2.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters, seemingly roughly aligned on the left, decreasing in size.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Deeply incised letters with pronounced serifs and comma-shaped interpuncts. Tall I in line 1, sloping cross-bars to alpha, G with curled foot, M with extended upper strokes.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 36-39 (I = 49)mm
- Line 2: 28-31mm
- Line 3: 28-33mm
- Line 4: 27-31mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in 1883, 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 , 31
- Autopsy
- Antoniou 2023-07-06 in the storeroom of the museo civico.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285238
- EDR: 111013
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900643
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- W. Henzen and K. F. W. Zangemeister, Ephemeris Epigraphica. Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementum, Edita Iussu Instituti Archaeologici Romani, 9 vols (Berlin: G. Reimerum, 1872), at VIII 700
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell鈥檃rte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d鈥橧talia, 芦Notizie degli scavi di antichit脿禄, Notizie degli Scavi di Antichit脿, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 179
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 51
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/13/2025