ISic000135: Funerary inscription for Auctarius

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 13-07-2022
ID
ISic000135
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on autopsy ;
  • 2: Ferrua: Primigene
  • 3: Ferrua: [vix(it) ann(os)] XXI; Bivona: [v(ixit) an]n(is) XXI

Physical description

Support

Description
Top part of a plaque of a variegated brown/pink stone. Intact top, left and right (apart from the very top left corner), broken across the lower half. The rear is very uneven, and cut back, from the front edges on all sides, to that the front edge is thin, but mostly preserved. The surface is relatively poor due to the stone's typology.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 16.2 cm, width: 29.2 cm, depth: 2.5-4.5 (thinner on right side) cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of Latin letters, filling the surface of the stone, maintaining left and right margins.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 44-47mm
Line 2: 40-41 (NI ligature = 55)mm
Line 3: at least 31mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
First recorded by Ferrua in 1941, as one of several pieces in the museo civico 'venute alla luce negli ultimi anni, durante costruzioni fatte in citta'.

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 32
Autopsy
Prag 2022-07-13
Map

Date

2nd century CE (Ferrua) (AD 101 – AD 200)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Ferrua failed to observe the ligature and interpuncts in line 2, in what was clearly a quick and hasty reading.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/16/2025