ISic000152: Funerary inscription for a Claud[---] Fort[---]

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2023-07-04.
ID
ISic000152
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Extremely irregular fragment of grey stone. Top edge original, but irregular shaped breaks on all other edges. It is possible that the lower left edge of the stone is original.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 30 cm, width: 26.5 (at top), 11 (at irregular bottom) cm, depth: 4 cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of fragmentary Latin text (a fourth line is possible, but the break obscures this; the epigraphic formula suggests three lines only). There is a large vacat on the left side of all text.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 63-69mm
Line 2: 49-50mm
Line 3: 34mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found in excavations in the garden of the Convento dei Cappuccini, in Termini Imerese, in 1889, during the construction of new buildings, together with and .
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Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 55
Autopsy
Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 7, shelf 1.
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The lack of a praenomen on the stone means that it is most likely that the epitaph was for a woman, most plausibly called Claudia Fortunata, but as Bivona observes there are instances of male individuals lacking a praenomen in the Termini corpus also (e.g. ISic000153), so this is hardly conclusive.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
5/2/2024