ISic000184: Funerary inscription for the slave Ianuarius
- ID
- ISic000184
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular dark-grey marble plaque, with somewhat chipped edges. Rear is flat, but rear and sides discoloured with modern rust.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 17.5 cm,聽width: 34.5 cm,聽depth: 8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, with a gap to the left of the text (but not on the right). Clearly inscribed horizontal guidelines to top and bottom of each line, with an incised left and right margin also. Guidelines have the following heights: line 1 (39 mm), line 2 (37 mm), line 3 (35mm). The spaces between the guidelines are not equal, between lines 1 and 2 is a space of between 4-8mm (the gap reduces to the right), and between lines 2 and 3 is a space of between 5-6mm (again reducing at the right). Use of interpuncts consistently between words.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Text is very elegantly carved, following the guidelines with some freedom. Text is has a consistent left margin, not quite perfectly judged in length to the right margin, with some compression at line end. Elegant use of serifs. Interpuncts predominantly of a 'comma' shape. Vs have a particularly distinctive shape, with greater slope on left line. Size of letters decreases from left to right, as the stone-cutter runs out of room. Diminuitive 'o' at the end of line 3.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 40mm
- Line 2: 38-40mm
- Line 3: 37-41 (final 'o' at the end of the line is 18mm)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations in Piazza Duomo in mid-March 1878
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 2
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-13. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 2, shelf 4.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Ianuarius is a common name attested elsewhere in Sicily, see e.g. ISic000431, as well as elsewhere in the empire. Successa is equally as common in the empire, and there is one attestation of a masculine version of the name in Sicily, ISic003244. Bivona (1994) suggests that the mother, Successa, was most likely a slave, as was her son, Ianuarius.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285225
- EDR: 127389
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100115
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell鈥檃rte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d鈥橧talia, 芦Notizie degli scavi di antichit脿禄, Notizie degli Scavi di Antichit脿, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 111
- 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 7413
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 106
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/13/2025