ISic000177: Fragmentary Latin epitaph
- ID
- ISic000177
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after photograph ;
- 3: Mommsen: [dul].issimo; the trace is more readily compatible with I not C
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble plaque, preserving the lower right corner, but broken above, left and lower left.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 8.6 cm, width: 12.5 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of three lines of Latin letters, of which the first much larger than the second and third, with indications that the text was centred on the stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in the garden of the Convento dei Cappuccini in or shortly before 1832
- Map
Current location
Although photographed in the museum in the C20, neither Bivona nor we ourselves have been able to find the stone in the museum.
Date
Imperial (AD 100 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
It seems likely that the plaque is the remains of a funerary inscription set up for a male individual by a female relative.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285318
- EDR: 127542
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100108
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, «Inscriptio Thermis nuper inventa», Effemeridi Scientifiche e Letterarie per la Sicilia 1, fasc. 4 (1832): 187–88, at 187-188
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 99 no.16
- 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 10.7406
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 99
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
- Victoria Fendel
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025