ISic000183: Funerary epitaph for Marcus Hortesius Primus
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after autopsy ;
- line.3: Mommsen read the initial part of the numeral V, but it is notable that neither Crispi nor Romano reported any trace of a numeral, and the surviving traces on the stone show no trace at all which would support such a reading, the break being vertical and possibly following the line of a vertical stroke.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large slab of dark grey stone. Left and top edges are intact, straight and square. The bottom and right are broken, and heavily abraded. The rear is almost completely flat, although there is a slight wave in the stone.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm,聽width: 29.5 cm,聽depth: 11.5 cm
Material
- Description
- limestone
- Type > subtype
- stone.limestone.non-polishable.grey > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, with triangular interpuncts
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Letter shapes and orientation are slightly erratic, but the letters are extremely thin and with exaggerated serif tails, with a strong leftward slant to the vertical axis. The long legs of the "R"s are particularly distinctive.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 40-49mm
- Line 2: 30-34mm
- Line 3: 41-50mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini together with ) in 1824
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- 100
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-06. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 8, shelf 6
- Map
Date
Imperial (CE 101 - CE 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The form Hortesius is much rarer than Hortensius, which is extremely common across the empire. As Bivona (1994) notes, there does not seem to have been a shift from one form to the other, as both are attested contemporaneously. For the prevalence of Hortesius on Sicilian tile and brick stamps, see Bivona (1994).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285257
- EDR: 127472
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100114
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Crispi (1824) at 82 no.2
- Baldassare Romano, Antichit脿 termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 100 no.19
- 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 7412
- ILMusTermini Bivona (1994) at 105
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 10/15/2025