ISic000160: Funerary epitaph for Cornelius Acathobus
- ID
- ISic000160
- 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 white marble plaque of irregular quadrangular form. Intact except for the upper left corner, and sides abraded. Rear is flat.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 13 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 2.3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four complete lines of Latin text approximately centred
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 19mm
- Line 2: 16-21mm
- Line 3: 16-25mm
- Line 4: 15-25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese in the 18th century on the hill of S. Lucia, afterwards kept in the Palazzo Municipale (reported by Tardia to Torremuzza in 1766, and the circumstances, around 1760 are described by Romano, together with its transfer to the 'casa del civico magistrato', whence it passed to the Museo Civico.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-06. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 13, shelf 5
- Map
Date
Ferrua dates to the fourth century on the basis of the lettering. (AD 301 – AD 400)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Mommsen judged the inscription to be fake, but Ferrua (1941) followed by Bivona (1994) considered it to be authentic, and there seems no reason to doubt it (other than its crude form and non-standard orthography). Whilst Acathobus is rendered here, Agathopus is more common across the empire, with another attestation in Termini Imerese, see ISic000235. Members of the gens Cornelia are extremely common in Termini Imerese.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175682
- EDR: 078714
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 26001192
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at 170 cl.14 no.39
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 184 cl.14 no.44
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 40
- 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 10.1084*
- « 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 1982.0419
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 261 no.19
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 81
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025