ISic000178: Funerary inscription for M. Granius Dexter erected by his wife Cestia Pulchella
- ID
- ISic000178
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Thick plaque of white marble with orange discolouration on sides. Left and top sides are intact, but with chipping along top edge. Bottom right corner is broken. Tapered rear, more protruding at top. Strong traces of pigment in the letters.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 28 cm, width: 31.5 cm, depth: 12-17 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- 4 lines of Latin letters, centred on the upper half of the stone and fitted tightly to the left and right borders, with large vacat at bottom of stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: 32-40mm
- Lines 3-4: 23mm
- 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
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 107
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-06. On display in Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Map
Date
imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Cestiae are relatively common in Thermae Himeraeae. Roman citizens of tribe Quirina are attested elsewhere in Thermae Himeraeae, and this tribus is predominant in Sicily (see Prag, 2010). Bivona (1994) hypothesizes an African origin of M. Granius Dexter, and posits that the small letters squeezed into the end of line 2 are a later addition, perhaps added after Dexter's death (this is plausible, based upon the presence of the large interpunct after Dextro). Bivona also suggests on palaeographical grounds that lines 3-4 are different in character, and are less rigid, but this is not apparent after autopsy, where the difference in size seems a more plausible explanation (NB compare the variation in 'T' in lines 3 and 4).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285312
- EDR: 127543
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100109
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 10.7407
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 100
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025