ISic000168: Fragmentary funerary epitaph for Dionysius
- ID
- ISic000168
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of ILTermini (which follows that of Ferrua (1941), checked with autopsy and against photograph;
- 1: Although Bivona (1994) notes the existence of an illegible first line, it does not appear in Bivona's edition.
- 3: Bivona (1994) following Ferrua (1941) plausibly reads [---]nsor Filum-, with a short "i" under the F and an extremely imprecise 'L' afterwards, which joins with the F. Possible, but unlikely, is '[---]nso rerum'
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Brown/white fragmentary stone. Bottom and right edges are original, with breaks on top and left edges. The rear is relatively flat, but with a straight, diagonal step. The surface is extremely abraded. Traces of modern red paint and modern mortar along edges. The measurements recorded by Ferrua (1941) are significantly different: 49cm high, 19cm wide, 19cm deep (perhaps a transcription error?).
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 19 cm, width: 16-19 cm, depth: 4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin text, all incomplete. Line 1 is almost impossible to recover. Block-shaped interpuncts
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: irrecoverable on the basis of the bottoms of letter forms alonemm
- Line 2: 29-41mm
- Line 3: 26-29 (excluding the possible small 'I')mm
- Line 4: 27-29mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the inscription is assumed to come from Termini Imerese, and is one of a number first recorded by Ferrua in 1941, said to have been found in recent years during construction work in the city.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 36
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 8, shelf 4
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The inscription is in such a poor state that the end of the third line is almost impossible to read. Ferrua's (1941) suggestion of Filum- is most likely. Dionysius, here in the dative case, is an extremely common Greek name, with two other examples in Thermae Himeraeae alone, see ISic000188, ISic000225.
The intepretation of the surviving traces is not certain. It seems most likely, as first suggested by Ferrua, that lines 1-2 contain the name of the deceased, with the cognomen Dionysius; and that line 3-4 contains the name of the dedicant, although the subsequent age at death immediately following this is somewhat awkward. Alternatively, as also noted by Ferrua, Filum[eno] would be the signum of Dionysius, and we simply have a long single personal name.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175738
- EDR: 076866
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900652
- 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 1994.0779
- « 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 1977.0342
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 263 no.25
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 89
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/27/2024