ISic000151: Funerary epitaph for Titus Cispius Eros
- ID
- ISic000151
- 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
- Two large fragments of orange-grey marble plaque, missing lower left corner and broken entirely on right. Edges are rough. Stone tapers: thicker at bottom than at top. Surface is extremely abraded.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 29.5 (at highest) cm, width: 35.5 (at widest) cm, depth: 4.1 (at top), 6.3 (at bottom) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin inscription. Despite the break to the right, no text appears to have been lost. Use of comma-shaped interpuncts in line 1, although the very first interpunct in that line is extremely worn but appears to be shaped differently. Long hederae used in line 2 (and below line 2).
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 52-58 (T=62)mm
- Line 2: 47-51mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found at a date between 1784 and 1829 in Termini, and moved to the civic collection by 1829 (Romano).
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 40ac
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-07. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 14, shelf 6
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Eros is a common Greek cognomen, which can be found elsewhere in Sicily, e.g. ISic000598 and ISic000044. The rather rare name Cispius may be attested in a second Titus Cispius at Thermae Himeraeae in ISic000150, but the reading is far from certain.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284851
- EDR: 111047
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100091
- 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 304 no.16
- 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 10.7390
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 70
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025