ISic000163: Funerary inscription for Cornelia Scepsis
- ID
- ISic000163
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- line.2: There is no immediately clear answer as to what the sign "Ↄ", a reverse C, symbolises here; cf.ISic000146 and ISic000174; also CIL 6.15139 (Rome) for analogous use, as pointed out by Bivona (1994). Understanding Ↄ as signifying 'circiter' is one attractive interpretation.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Plaque broken into four pieces, with irregular edges. Small fragment missing at the centre of the reattached pieces. Rear of plaque is relatively flat.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 22.5 (20 at right side) cm, width: 49.5 (at widest) cm, depth: 33 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Latin letters, roughly centred on stone
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 32mm
- Line 2: 23-29mm
- Line 3: 27-30mm
- Line 4: 28mm
- Line 5: 22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found, together with , and in contrada Madonna della Catena, on the property of Gallegra, in August 1907
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 7ad
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-06. On display in Museo Civico Baldassare Romano.
- Map
Date
Bivona (1994, 184) dates this inscription, as well as, and to between the second-half of the second century CE and early third century CE (AD 150 – AD 250)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The husband of the deceased, Auctus, is known only by his cognomen. It is probable that Auctus is the same individual as identified ISic000161 and ISic000164, all found at the same time and in the same location, from which we can discern his name: L. Cornelius Auctus. Corneliae are common in Thermae Himeraeae, although the cognomen Scepsis is unknown in Sicily
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175699
- EDR: 077917
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900395
- 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 1980.0517
- 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 542-543 no.5 tav.3
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 84
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025