ISic000153: Funerary inscription for Tiberius Claudius
- ID
- ISic000153
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- Bivona appears to assume 5 lines in total, assuming a missing line after line 2, and a further missing line below the last surviving line; Fiorelli, following Ciofalo, assumed four lines (a line between lines 2 and 3), his text reproduced in Ephemeris Epigraphica VIII. ;
- 3: Bivona: [---]IX[---]; traces of V clearly visible before, and tops of three lettes, probably numerals, visible at right end.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Thick rectangular plaque of marble, intact top, left and right, broken below. The edges and the rear are cut smooth. jThe edges have been painted with red in modern times, and two holdes drilled in the lower edge and one in the right edge, presumably for display. There is some chipping to the edges, and the face is worn concave, with much of the inscription after line 1 worn away.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 18.6 cm, width: 36.8 cm, depth: 6.5-6.8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Traces are visible of three lines of text, but it is possible, from the spacing, that a fourth line (which would be line 3 of the text) is simply completely lost; the spacing would be tight, however, and more plausibly there is simply a vacat between lines 2 and 3, after the name and prior to the record of age at death, a simple formulation that finds multiple parallels at Termini.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 32-39mm
- Line 2: 35mm
- Line 3: 34mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 6mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in 1885 in the ruins of the castle, Termini Imerese
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 88
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-05, in the storeroom of the Museo Civico, room 1, rack 8, shelf 2.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
It is impossible to know on what basis Manganaro assumed that this stone contains a dedication that described 'un intervento edilizio'. Even given its very worn state, it is difficult if not impossible to construe it as anything other than a funerary inscription of a simple and common type at Termini, name plus age at death. Most likely line 2 contained the cognomen of the individual, quite possibly beginning with the visible letter A and so centred on the stone. Although theoretically there is room for a line between lines 2 and 3, this would be very compressed and absolutely no traces are visible. In the final line, traces of a curved V (compare the broad Vs in line 1) precede the visible IX, followed by a gap commensurate with ANN, which in turn is followed by traces of the tops of at least two, and possibly three strokes, probably the tops of Xs, i.e. the age at death.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285273
- EDR: 111299
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900648
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- W. Henzen and K. F. W. Zangemeister, Ephemeris Epigraphica. Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementum, Edita Iussu Instituti Archaeologici Romani, 9 vols (Berlin: G. Reimerum, 1872), at VIII 702
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 405
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 70
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 73
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025