ISic000175: Epitaph for Aulus Fabricius
- ID
- ISic000175
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Mommsen: LCAS[---]; Bivona: [---]a[---]; the traces are compatible with L路CASS[ius], and assuming the compression implied by the 'SS', a complete personal name with short cognoment on line 1; initial P might also be possible.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large rectangular block of a very coarse orange stone. Intact on all sides with roughly straight edges. Damaged across the upper front edge, leaving only traces of the top line. The reverse is extremely irregular and uneven.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- tuff
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 45 cm,聽width: 28-31.5 (bottom to top) cm,聽depth: 11-16 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Six lines of Latin all left justified except for line 3 which is indented.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Rather crudely cut tall and narrow letters (note the quality of the stone), with rounded channels, and very basic interpuncts. Attempted serif on e.g. the initial F of line 5, but otherwise plain.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: greater than 3(max 50)mm
- Line 2: 43-51mm
- Line 3: 28-36mm
- Line 4: 35-46mm
- Line 5: 41-53mm
- Line 6: 51-60mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 15mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 9mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 11-15mm
- Interlineation line 4 to 5: 7-21mm
- Interlineation line 5 to 6: 0-16mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese in 1783, and first reported by Torremuzza 1784 in his additimenta, after Liborio Rini
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-04, depositi of the Termini Imerese Museo Civico, room 1, rack 4, shelf 3.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bivona makes no reference to the traces in line 1 in discussion; she suggests that the female names in lines 4-6 resolve as two individuals, Postumia Fausta and Fabricia, but clearly other permutations are possible. The traces in line 1 seem most compatible with another male personal name in the nominative, rather than any sort of heading.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285260
- EDR: 127475
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100106
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 331 no.2
- 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 7404
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 97
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/25/2024