ISic000136: Funerary inscription for Gaius Audius Verus
- ID
- ISic000136
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 4: Mommsen, Bivona: IN ER; but the tail to the 'E' makes it clear that it is an 'F' with a foot, not an E.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large grey stele in local limestone. Uneven trapezoidal shape, with a definite break on the top left edge. Rear is flat. Surface is divided into two bands. The top band, within which the text is located, is lightly stipled and carved away. The bottom band is rougher, with tooling marks evident.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 68 cm, width: 49 cm, depth: 7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin text placed unevenly in top third of stele. Use of a variety of interpuncts; they are shaped like dots in lines 1-2, but arrow-shaped in line 4.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 44-53mm
- Line 2: 35-56mm
- Line 3: 38-59mm
- Line 4: 32-61mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Mommsen in the Museo Civico prior to 1883; the place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the piece iscan safely be assumed to come from Termini Imerese.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-13. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 1, shelf 5.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
As Bivona (1994) notes, the form of this epitaph differs from those usual in Thermae Himeraeae, in that the name of the deceased is in the genitive. For the rarely attested name Audius, Bivona draws attention to two testimonies. The first is Audius Bassus, the proconsul of Cyprus in 198 CE, who is rembered in a bilingual inscription (CIL III.218). The second is ILS 9417 in which a M. Audius M.f. is attested in a votive inscription in Delos from 113 BCE, in which there is also a N. Stenius M.f. a gens that is more familiar in Thermae Himeraeae, and is attested by Cicero in relation to Delos and Verres (in Verrem 2.2.83–85). Mommsen understood loco cub(---) as loco cub(andi patente); compare CIL 14.596, with loco cubiculi intus concesso.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285123
- EDR: 111016
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100080
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 10.7379
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 55
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/7/2024