ISic000140: Funerary inscription for a woman (Caninia?)
- ID
- ISic000140
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 3: Bivona: DO.; but there is a diagonal stroke along the break of the stone, which implies M, not N.
- 4: Bivona (ILTermini) asserts the presence of an interpunct at the start of the line, but we are unconvinced that this is an interpunct rather than an artefact of later damage; she additionally refers to traces of a letter below this, which cannot be seen.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of an offwhite marble plaque, preserving the left edge, and the upper left and lower left corners, but broken on the right; a small piece is missing from the left side, but the start of each line is preserved. The rear is finished smooth, but cut back along the upper edge, to a height of 22mm.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 29 cm, width: 13 cm, depth: 2.5-2.9 (top to bottom) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters, the first line centred, lines 2-4 maintaining a consistent left margin; vacats at top and bottom of the stone. Double guidelines are present above and below lines 2 and 3, but not closely observed (contra Bivona), and seemingly not present for lines 1 and 4.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: incompletemm
- Line 2: 35-37mm
- Line 3: 36mm
- Line 4: 33-38mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- From Termini Imerese, and first seen in the Museo Civico by Bivona in 1974, but exact provenance not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 23ab
- Autopsy
- Alex Antoniou 2023-07-07 in the storeroom of the Museo Civico, Termini Imerese.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 50 – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The careful hedera in line 1 and the foot of a letter that follows strongly implies the presence of the Dis Manibus heading, and most likely as 'D.M.' only, given the likely extent of the stone. The absence of a praenomen suggests a female name with nomen and cognomen, and Caninia is the most likely, if not the only possibility for the nomen.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175705
- EDR: 077927
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900405
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1980.0527
- Livia Bivona, «Nuove iscrizioni di Termini Imerese (Palermo)», Atti della Accademia di Scienze, Lettere a Arti di Palermo Ser.4, 35, fasc. 2 (1976 1975): 531–58, at 551 no.16 tav.8
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 59
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/17/2024