ISic000147: Funerary inscription for P. Cestius Catullus
- ID
- ISic000147
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Funerary stele in yellow limestone with a rounded top. Otherwise well-squared, but for slight chipping on left side. Traces of a rougher surface in lower half of front face, and slight discolouration; both features suggest that the lower part of the stele was buried in antiquity to that level.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 68 (at most) cm, width: 46 cm, depth: 15.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text. While line 1 is relatively square and centred on stone, lines 2-3 are off centre. Line 3 drifts upwards. Use of triangular interpuncts between every word, and at the beginning of each line. Beneath these are two upside-down 'V's of different sizes, perhaps stone-carver marks? The first is roughly halfway down the stone, the other is around 4/5 towards the base, and is followed by a more lightly carved E (also upside down); a faint 'C' shape is visible below.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 50-53mm
- Line 2: 45-47mm
- Line 3: 39-44mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- One of several pieces recorded by Romano 1829, exact circumstances of discovery unknown, but found in Termini Imerese after the publication of Castelli 1784.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 111
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-08. On display in the courtyard portico of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Map
Date
1st-2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
There are a number of other Cestiae, including other Publii Cestii Catulli, in Thermae Himeraeae, see esp. ISic000144 and ISic000146.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284848
- EDR: 111043
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100087
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, «Antiche iscrizioni inedite appartenenti alla città di Termini Imerese», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 28 (1829): 289–308, at 300 no.7
- 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 10.7386
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 66
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/16/2025