ISic000148: Funerary inscription for Cestia Catulla
- ID
- ISic000148
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 1: Traces are visible of the foot of the T
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large grey marble plaque, broken in two down the middle. The left edge is smooth, the other edges more roughly finished. The inscription field is complete, but the right side of the plaque is chipped and damaged. Remains of a raised border visible along the left edge. The two halves join, but the surface is very damaged on both sides of the break, with the loss of approx one letter on each line. The rear is carved with acanthus leaves and dentils at right angles to the text. Bivona appears to assume that the stone was re-used for the inscription, but this is not immediately clear.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 39 cm, width: 44.8 cm, depth: 3-6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is carefully laid out with a bounding guideline around all four sides, and faint traces of guielines to the top and bottom of each line of text. Ligature in line 2 maintains the spacing, with interpuncts between wrods.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 75mm
- Line 2: 70mm
- Line 3: 62-65 (I = 70)mm
- Line 4: 50-53mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- One of several pieces first recorded in the civic collection by Romano in 1829, as having been found subsequent to the publication of the corpus in 1784 by Castelli, Principe di Torremuzza
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 64ab
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-05, on display in the Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
first half of the C1 CE (AD 1 – AD 50)- Evidence
- letter
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284849
- EDR: 111044
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100088
- 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.8
- 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 10.7387
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 67
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/16/2025