ISic000167: Funerary inscription for Daphne
- ID
- ISic000167
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after autopsy ;
- 3: Bivona: Canin铆
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Vaguely rectalinear cippus of grey-yellow stone, broken on right edge, and top left corner. Top edge is rounded on both sides. Left edge slightly tapers. Top and bottom edges straight. Rear of stone is flat, but for large calcified deposits making it uneven. Sides, edges and top all painted in modern red paint.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 48 cm,聽width: 41-31 cm,聽depth: 7 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three line Latin inscription in top half of stone. Text complete. Text almost centred, but shifted slightly to the right. Grey discolouration around letters.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Letters are tall, thin, and well defined, in pronounced v-cut. Characters in line 1 differ from those on the following two lines (compare A and N). Defined serifs on all letters. Use of triangular interpuncts on lines two and three. First line is more deeply cut than the other two. End of line 2 tapers upwards, to fit into stone. Every instance of 'X' have deeply and widely incised lines that slope from left to right.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 70-72mm
- Line 2: 48-52mm
- Line 3: 40-45mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese, in 1881, in the ancient necropolis located in S. Antonino. NSA describes the location of discovery as 'a few steps from the city walls, in the S. Antonino plateau' (A pochi passi dalle mura della citta, nel piano di S. Antonino").
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 84
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 1, shelf 6.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Daphne, a Greek name rendered in Latin, is only otherwise attested in the feminine (in Greek) in Sicily at Messina, ISic004378. The masculine, Daphnus, is otherwise attested (in Latin) at Catania, ISic000358, and Syracuse, ISic000434. The name of the dedicant, in line three, is likely the husband of the deceased. His name, rendered in Latin, is also Greek (Agon). Bivona (1994) suggests that the dedicant is perhaps a freedperson of the gens Caninia, attested elsewere in Thermae Himeraeae, ISic000141 and Sant'Agata di Militello, ISic000041.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285261
- EDR: 127476
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100100
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell鈥檃rte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d鈥橧talia, 芦Notizie degli scavi di antichit脿禄, Notizie degli Scavi di Antichit脿, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 98
- 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 7398a
- 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 7398add
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 88
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/13/2025