ISic000155: Fragment recording two freedmen
- ID
- ISic000155
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small rectangular shaped fragment of a thick white marble plaque of a very granular consistency. Seemingly cut down on all sides, although the lower edge could be original, roughly finished. The surface is somewhat eroded, and discoloured by rust stains. The stone is opisthographic, with a later text on the reverse. Same support as .
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 11.5 cm, width: 17.5 cm, depth: 5.0-5.4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin letters, the first larger than the second.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 41-50mm
- Line 2: 28-31mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 5mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The piece was first published by Bivona in 1975-76, with no record of its original discovery (presumably Termini Imerese)
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 6
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-06, storeroom of the Museo Civico, room 1, rack 13, shelf 5.
- Map
Date
Roman imperial period (AD 1 – AD 250)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The surface of the stone makes the reading of line 1 less than transparent, but the S seems certain, and ELPI is unlikely to be anything other than the name (H)Elpis. Colax in line 2 likewise seems clear, even if a poorly attested name. Whether the stone is part of a funerary inscription or records the activities of two liberti (building, dedication, etc.), of whom the first appears to be female, cannot be clarified. Several of the reports of this text appear to unite the obverse with the reverse to produce a single funerary inscription, but the reading of the reverse in published editions is wrong (see ISic001876) and there is clearly no connection at all between the two texts.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285243
- EDR: 111305
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900406
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1980.0528
- Livia Bivona, «Nuove iscrizioni di Termini Imerese (Palermo)», Atti della Accademia di Scienze, Lettere a Arti di Palermo Ser.4, 35, fasc. 2 (1976 1975): 531–58, at 552 no.18a tav.9
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 76a
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/8/2024