ISic000154: Epitaph of Clodia Thalia
- ID
- ISic000154
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A very thick plaque of compact grey limestone, with the upper edge cut to a triangular form (more crudely finished than the other edges). Intact on all four sides, with the edges covered in modern red paint. The rear is pecked. The surface shows some signs of damage and wear.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 24 cm, width: 27 cm, depth: 10.4-9.4 (left to right) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is carefully centred (note use of ligature in line 2 to support this?), the final line much smaller.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 38-48mm
- Line 2: 36-38mm
- Line 3: 20-23mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in 1878 in piazza Duomo, during the excavation of ditches for the planting of trees.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 104
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-13, in the storeroom of the Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285124
- EDR: 111300
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100093
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 383
- 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 10.7392
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 74
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Victoria Fendel
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025