ISic000134: Funerary inscription for Athen[ais?]

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana: photo J. Prag 07-07-2023
ID
ISic000134
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy ;
  • 1: Mommsen: ATHEN[---]
  • 3: Mommsen: saw the trace of a letter at the end of the surviving line (but which seems uncertain between letter trace or damage).

Physical description

Support

Description
Plaque of white marble with blue veining. Left side intact, top possibly intact, broken on right and below. Rear is smooth, with traces of mortar.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 22.5 cm, width: 26 cm, depth: 2 cm

Inscription

Layout
Four lines of Latin text, seemingly centred rather than a fixed left margin, but with a border line incised in the stone on the left, and a guideline above line 1.
Text condition
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: 40mm
Line 2: 26-27mm
Line 3: 35-36mm
Line 4: at least 24mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Seemingly first observed, in the civic museum, by Mommsen, prior to 1883.

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 74
Autopsy
Alex Antoniou 2023-07-07
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/24/2025