ISic000165: Funerary inscription for Lucius Cornificius Philargyrus and Cornificia Nicarin
- ID
- ISic000165
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy. The original full text was reported by Dentici Buccellato after correspondence with Prof. G. Navarra, who originally transcribed the inscription when it was complete. ;
- 2: The break of the stone appears to follow the downstroke of an 'A' at the beginning of the line. This confirms G. Navarra's original transcription.
- 3: The break of the stone appears to follow the downstroke of an 'N' at the beginning of the line. This confirms G. Navarra's original transcription.
- 4: Downstroke visible before break
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Right side of a grey stone marble plaque, squared but irregularly broken across the left side; lower right corner preserved, but most of the lower edge is lost (The stone was however apparently intact when first discovered). Large chip missing in top right. Rear flat. Sides polished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 24 cm, width: 23.5 cm, depth: 3.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin text, all incomplete due to break on left side. Text contained within faint guidelines top and bottom of each line, still visible on stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 48mm
- Line 2: 39mm
- Line 3: 45-47mm
- Line 4: Unmeasurable on basis of a single broken lettermm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found outside Termini Imerese near the Barratina stream during the excavation for the foundations of the mill owned by Pusateri, well outside the town. The plaque still lay intact in the garden adjacent to the church of S. Giacomo in 1974, until it was transferred to the Museo Civico Baldassare Romano in 1994.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 5, shelf 4.
- Map
Date
2nd - 3rd century CE (AD 101 – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The man and woman recorded in this inscription belong to the same gens (Cornificia), but have Greek cognomina. The gens Cornificia is also present at Syracuse, see e.g. ISic002962 and ISic002963. As Bivona (1994) suggests, the two are likely liberti. Bivona (1994) speculates that these two Cornificii, are related to the L. Cornificius who fought in Octavius' fleet in the seas off of Sicily against Sextus Pompeius. The name Nicarin is also present in another inscription at Thermae Himeraeae, ISic000201. Bivona (1994) suggests that cognomina ending in -in, rather than -ion, finds favour at Thermae Himeraeae, with the two inscriptions already mentioned, as well as Asterin in ISic000216. The 'G' in line 2 is extremely similar to two other inscriptions found at Thermae Himeraeae: ISic000111 and ISic000053.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284853
- EDR: 111310
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900651
- 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 1994.0778
- Rosa Maria Dentici Buccellato, «Dall’abitato romano all’abitato medievale: Termini Imerese», in Atti del colloquio internazionale di Archeologia medievale (1974), vol. 2, 1976, 198–214, http://opac.regesta-imperii.de/id/1243536, at 201 n.15
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 86
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025