ISic000146: Funerary inscription for Publius Cestius Catullus
- ID
- ISic000146
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large rectangular plaque of compact grey limestone. Intact on all sides. Some chipping of the upper edge. The edges are finished but rough. The rear left is chipped away and the rear is uneven with traces of mortar. The surface has suffered some abrasion, but the text is complete.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 38.2-38.7 (left to right) cm, width: 64.1-64.5 (top to bottom) cm, depth: 10-12 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters approximately centered on the stone with use of vacat in line 2 to render the text symmetrical.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 71-76mm
- Line 2: 58mm
- Line 3: 48-50 (T=64)mm
- Line 4: 42mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First described by Fazello as 'in aede D. Ioannis' in 1558; recorded by Gualtherus 1624 as 'in pariete Paretorii'; subsequently transferred to the Museo Civico.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 112
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-08, in the courtyard of the Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
There is no immediately clear answer as to what the sign "Ↄ", a reverse C, symbolises here; cf. ISic000163 and ISic000174 as well as CIL 6.15139 (Rome) for analogous use, as pointed out by Bivona (1994), who suggests that it stands for 'circiter'. The gens Cestius is well attested in Termini, often with the cognomen Catullus.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284847
- EDR: 111026
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100086
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Tommaso Fazello, F. Thomæ Fazelli... de rebus Siculis decades duæ (Panormi, 1558), at Prioris Decadis, Liber Nonus, p.194
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at no. 86
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at no.245
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl.5 no.11
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl.5 no.11
- 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 10.7385
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 65
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025