ISic000138: Funerary inscription for Caecinia Sozusa

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 2022-07-13.
ID
ISic000138
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy ;
  • 4: Fiorelli, Ihm (in EphEp), Bivona: L; but upper left diagonal of either X or V clearly visible, and possible trace of lower left diagonal of X on the break.

Physical description

Support

Description
Part of a thick grey marble plaque, partially intact on upper, left and lower edges, broken on the right, with damage to upper and lower left corners and along the top edge. Finished smooth on the rear, the edges roughtly finished.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 17.6 cm, width: 15.9 cm, depth: 4.2-4.7 (top to bottom) cm

Inscription

Layout
Four lines of Latin letters, probably centred on the stone, first line centred, lines 2-4 maintaining a consistent left margin.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 36mm
Line 2: 29-30mm
Line 3: 23-26mm
Line 4: 24mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found in the ruins of the castle of Termini, in 1883
Map

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 56
Autopsy
Prag 2022-07-13, storeroom of the Museo Civico, Termini.
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

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Citation and editorial status

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