ISic000133: Funerary plot for Marcus Arruntius Brocchus
- ID
- ISic000133
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of from autopsy ;
- 1: Romano: S. ARRVNTI; Mommsen, Bivona:.Arrunti[o---]
- 2: Romano: BRO.CL; Mommsen, Bivona: Brocc[ho---]
- 3: Romano: OCVS.PV LIC D; Mommsen, Bivona: [l]ocus pu[b]lic(e) d[atus]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A stele or cippus with a rounded upper edge, of a dark grey limestone. Intact on the left, and on the left lower edge and probably the upper left edge also; but broken/damaged on the right upper and lower parts. The face is partly flaked off the surface, and a natural flaw runs vertically across the face of the stone also.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 38.7 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 8.4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Latin letters, seemingly centred on the stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 34-39 (T is taller)mm
- Line 2: 38-41mm
- Line 3: 30-35mm
- Line 4: 30-35mm
- Line 5: 27-34mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 24-25mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 9-12mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 12-18mm
- Interlineation line 4 to 5: 20-26mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Romano, who saw it in 1824 outside the entrance to the 'collegio degli studi pubblici' in Termini Imerese, and had it transferred to the 'Casa del Civico Magistrato'.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 51
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-05, in the store-room of the Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
There is a clear vacat after the surviving text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285239
- EDR: 111014
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100078
- 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 294 no.2
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 88 no.2
- 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 10.7377
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 52
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025