ISic000180: Epitaph for C. Haterius Agatocles
- ID
- ISic000180
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Almost square block of brown/grey stone. Top and bottom are certainly complete edges, the left and right edges, although abraded and are not perpendicular to the other edges, and probably original as well. Modern black paint on face, modern red paint on sides. Rear is relatively flat. Front face is left in a chisel-finished rough state (Bivona (1994) suggests that this is due to the removal of a previous inscription, traces of which she suggests are visible above the A and T in line 3, but this seems very speculative).
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 23.5 cm, width: 31.5 cm, depth: 9 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text. Lines 1-2 are centred on the stone, line 3 is at the extreme left of the stone. Use of large 'T' shaped interpuncts.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 48-55mm
- Line 2: 47-51mm
- Line 3: 39-42 (O=28mm)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The text is recorded by Gualtherus 1624 amongst those from Termini, but without further information.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 45
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 8, shelf 4
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Although the identity of this Agatocles and his former owner as unknown to us, there is another Haterius known to us in Sicily: a M. Haterius Candidus who was proconsul of Sicily in the Neronian period, as attested in Agrigento, see ISic000473. The name Agatocles is relatively uncommon, appearing in Latin only in a handful of other dedications, often (but not always) in the context of freedpersons (as in the case of our Agatocles here).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285228
- EDR: 127394
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100111
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at no. 107
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at no. 264
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl.10 no.25
- 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 cl.10 no.28
- 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 10.7409
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 50
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 102
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025