ISic000183: Funerary epitaph for Marcus Hortesius Primus
- ID
- ISic000183
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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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
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm, width: 29.5 cm, depth: 11.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, with triangular interpuncts
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- 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, Italy
- 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 (AD 100 – AD 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
- Giuseppe Crispi, «Spiegazione di due iscrizioni trovate nella citta di Termini», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 7, fasc. 2 (1824): 82–84, at 82 no.2
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità 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 10.7412
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 105
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
- Alex Antoniou
- Last revision
- 6/25/2024