ISic000172: Funerary epitaph for Eunus
- ID
- ISic000172
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Plaque of yellow/white marble, intact on all sides. Traces of plaster around the outer circumference of the front face, together with discolouration to the epigraphic field suggest the stone was mounted in a wall with only the text exposed for an extended period. Stone is squared, although there is a taper towards the left. The rear is rough but flat.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 24.7 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text maintaining a consistent left margin with initial interpuncts, and irregular right margin. Mixture of different shaped hederae and interpuncts. Most interpuncts are diamond or triangle shaped.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 41-45mm
- Line 2: 42-44mm
- Line 3: 38-43mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in April 1880 'in un fondo fuori di porta Messina, appartenente al sig. Sinibaldi Oddo', together with and donated to the museum
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 73
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-07. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 15, shelf 3
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name Eunus is familiar in Sicily from the name of the leader of the first Sicilian slave revolt (135-132 BCE), but is otherwise unattested on the island.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285292
- EDR: 127515
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100104
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 200
- 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 10.7402
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 93
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025