ISic000159: Fragments of a funerary(?) inscription recording a member of the gens Cornelia
- ID
- ISic000159
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a white marble plaque. A third fragment, seen and photographed by Bivona from the upper left corner (completing the letters C and O in line 1) is missing. Top edge is partially intact, other three sides are broken. The rear is flat. Traces of mortar on sides, and some encrustation on parts of the front face. Depth of stone decreases towards the base.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 15 cm, width: 23 cm, depth: 1.8-1.0 (top to bottom) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two fragmentary lines of large Latin letters.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 58mm
- Line 2: greater than 28mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded in the museum by Mommsen 1883 and assumed to come from Termini.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-07. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 3, shelf 2
- Map
Date
1st century CE (Bivona on the basis of the lettering) (AD 1 – AD 100)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
It is impossible to say whether dedicatee is male or female. Bivona notes that the vacat before the C visible in the lost third fragment means that only an L is likely if a praenomen was recorded. Assuming the same amount of space in line 2, then the name of the father followed by F., as proposed by Bivona makes the best sense, and the space after the first visible letter trace would be compatible with an interpunct prior to the second letter. The subsequent traces, including the serif of a further letter after LEPI are all compatible with Bivona's proposed reading. The gens Cornelia is extremely common in Thermae Himeraeae.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285153
- EDR: 111309
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100096
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 10.7395
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 80
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/8/2024