ISic000181: Epitaph for L. Herennius Certus
- ID
- ISic000181
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 2: Romano, Mommsen: CERTVS
- 3: Romano, Mommsen: HAVE
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a green/grey plaque. Missing left bottom corner and most of bottom edge. Other sides intact. Rear is flat. It is clear that the plaque was intact when found in the late 18th or early 19th century, and when seen by Mommsen; but was already broken and missing the lower left corner when seen by Bivona prior to 1994.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 18 cm, width: 27.5 cm, depth: 2.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, line 3 is almost entirely missing. Ill-defined interpuncts used, some triangular. Large vacat at the end of line 3. Abrasions at the beginning of line 2 frustrate precision of comprehension.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 39-42mm
- Line 2: 36-39mm
- Line 3: irrecoverablemm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The inscription is first recorded by Romano 1829 among those found subsequent to Torremuzza 1784, and previously unpublished.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 65 A/B
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-07. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 3, shelf 2
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The gens Herennia is extremely well attested in the republican period, in both literary and numismatic sources, see Bivona (1994) for references. A Herennia Polla also belongs to Thermae Himeraeae, see ISic000182, and for elsewhere in Sicily, ISic000496 and ISic000561, all of which are imperial in date.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285227
- EDR: 127392
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100112
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, «Antiche iscrizioni inedite appartenenti alla città di Termini Imerese», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 28 (1829): 289–308, at 302 no.11
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 97 no.11
- 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 10.7410
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 103
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025