ISic000150: Funerary inscription of T. Cestius
- ID
- ISic000150
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 2: Mommsen: T. CISPIV[---]; Bivona: T. Cisipius[---]; certainty is far from possible, but given the style of lettering, E and T seem more likely than I and P
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a white marble plaque, intact top and left although the very top left corner is chipped away. Broken on right and below. The rear is roughly finished and uneven. The sides are finished smooth.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 9.1 cm,聽width: 16 cm,聽depth: 3.0-3.8 (upper left to lower right) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin letters, seemingly centred on the stone.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Crudely engraved Latin letters, thin grooves, tending to cursive with poor distinction of letter forms, and extended oblique strokes for interpuncts.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 23-24mm
- Line 2: 18-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 8mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Mommsen (1883) appears to have been the first to record the stone, in the Museo Civico.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 48
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-05, in the storeroom of the Museo Civico (room 1, rack 8, shelf 1).
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Mommsen and Bivona both read T. Cispius, which is a rare name, although paralleled at Termini in ISic000151; Cestius is well attested in Termini. The form of the third and fifth letters are very unclear/uncertain, but a thin E lacking a middle bar seems more plausible than I, and the eye of the P is not visible.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284850
- EDR: 111046
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100090
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 7389
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 69
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/13/2025