ISic000185: Funerary inscription for Ignatia Athanais

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2023-07-04
ID
ISic000185
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

Text after autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Small reddish/brown plaque, complete, all sides straight although abraded. Rear is flat.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 16.5 cm, width: 21.5 cm, depth: 6 cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of complete Latin text.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 23-30mm
Line 2: 26-30mm
Line 3: 27-29mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Recovered from the grounds of the former convent of the Cappuccini (Chiesa di San Girolamo), during the carrying out of building works in 1889, together with , and .
Map

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 98
Autopsy
Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 7, shelf 1.
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The gens Egnatia is rendered here in Greek form, Ignatia. The cognomen, Athanais, is more commonly rendered as Athenais, potentially attested in a fragmentary inscription, also found at Thermae Himeraeae, ISic000134.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/24/2025