ISic000162: Epitaph for Cornelius Castor
- ID
- ISic000162
- 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 grey-white marble plaque with blue-grey veins. Broken into three (joining) fragments, which have been reconnected and mounted on a perspex stand. The edges are intact, except for some damage and loss tot he left edge, chipping on the lower edge, and loss of the extreme lower right corner - the text is complete. The epigraphic field itself is discoloured and very slightly lower than the surrounding stone (c.1mm difference), perhaps due to later covering or treatment of the surface which degraded the surface of the stone. The edges are finished, and cut back towards the rear. The rear is finished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 21.4 cm, width: 33 cm, depth: 2.1-2.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin, approximately centred with slightly inconsistent comma-shaped interpuncts. The lines are not perfectly horizontal or evenly spaced, with slightly irregular letters.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30mm
- Line 2: 25-30mm
- Line 3: 25-29mm
- Line 4: 23-24mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- A chance find, with three other inscriptions (ISic000161, 000163, 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 , 13ac
- 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 of ISic000161 is the dedicant for his wife (ISic000163) and his sister (ISic000164) in two of the others. The relationship of Cornelius Castor in this text to the other three is not known (could be a son or grandson given the ages).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175698
- EDR: 077916
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900394
- 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 1980.0516
- 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.4 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 83
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025