ISic000161: Epitaph of Lucius Cornelius Auctus
- ID
- ISic000161
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- line.1: Bivona suggests the presence of a hedera leaf between D and M.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a thin white marble plaque, broken on all sides except the left edge of the left fragment (and possibly lower left edge). The rear is finished smooth, but discoloured. The two fragments have been reconnected and fixed to a clear perspex stand. Note that the intact left margin of the stone is not parallel to the left margin of the text. Fragment 1 (left) is max H 16.6 cm x max W 14.5 x D 1.9; fragment 2 (right) is max H 19 cm x W 13.2 x D 1.5.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 20 cm, width: 26.3 cm, depth: 1.9-1.5 (left to right) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three slightly irregular and roughly centred lines of Latin letters, with single use of hedera in the middle of the name; the final letters of the cognomen are combined in a mixture of large and small letters, almost monogram-like.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
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- Letter heights
- Line 1: 35mm
- Line 2: 26-38mm
- Line 3: 22-28mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- A chance find, with three other inscriptions (ISic000161-000164) in Contrada Madonna della Catena, proprieta Gallegra (c.800m outside the city at the time)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 8ab
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-05, on display in the Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
Dated by Bivona between 150 and 250 CE. (AD 150 – AD 250)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
ISic000161-000164 were all found together and, as Bivona notes, should all belong to the same family, since they share the same nomen (Cornelius) and the Auctus recorded here is the dedicant for his wife (ISic000163) and his sister (ISic000164) in two of the others; the relationship of Cornelius Castor in ISic000162 is not known (could be a son or grandson given the ages). Auctus is the only member of the family with a Latin cognomen.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175697
- EDR: 077915
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900393
- 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 1980.0515
- 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 541 no.3 tav.2
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 82
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025