ISic000174: Funerary epitaph for Euplia
- ID
- ISic000174
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Ferrua: D·M·
- line.3: Ferrua: IV
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Irregular fragment of a grey marble plaque. Intact on the left side, with broken moulding down the left margin. Broken on all other sides. Picked finish on the reverse.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 19.2 cm, width: 29.8 cm, depth: 6.8-8.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin letters, seemingly maintaining a consistent left margin, but irregular right margin, with a large vacat after DMS in line 1.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 38-45mm
- Line 2: 29-39mm
- Line 3: 35-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 8-9mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 7-15mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found 10th March 1883 in the ruins of the old castle of Termini Imerese
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 86
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-7-04, storeroom of the museo civico (room 1, rack 7, shelf 1)
- Map
Date
Ferrua dates to the 3rd century CE on the basis of the letter forms. (AD 200 – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The interpretation of the reversed C before the age is uncertain, but cf.ISic000146 and ISic000163; also CIL 6.15139 (Rome) for analogous use, as pointed out by Bivona (1994). Ferrua seems to have read the stone at speed, misreporting line 1, and reading 'IV' for the final numeral. The latter is entirely possible from the ambiguity of of I and L in this style of lettering, but the use of circiter before IV seems unlikely.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175737
- EDR: 076865
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900654
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- W. Henzen and K. F. W. Zangemeister, Ephemeris Epigraphica. Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementum, Edita Iussu Instituti Archaeologici Romani, 9 vols (Berlin: G. Reimerum, 1872), at VIII 704
- 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 179
- « 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 1977.0341
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 262 no.24
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 95
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/27/2024