ISic000186: Fragment of a later Roman Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic000186
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 1: Bivona: I]ACET B[---]; the trace on the stone is compatible with S, preceded by a slight vacat; B is wholly implausible.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small fragment of a grey marble plaque. Intact along the top edge, broken on all other sides. The rear is chisel finished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 13.2 cm, width: 15.4 cm, depth: 2.5-2.2 (top to bottom) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of two evenly spaced lines of Latin letters; use of double-dot interpuncts.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Regularly cut letters of moderate width module (rectangular but not narrow). Vertical strokes of A and N in line 2 do not fully join; A has broken bar. Interpuncts formed of double vertical drilled holes.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 43mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 19mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Bivona 1975/76, with no information about its exact provenance.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 15
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-07, Museo Civico Termini Imerese, depositi, room 1, rack 13, shelf 3
- Map
Date
467 CE or 538 CE, depending on the consular identification (Ferrua) (AD 467 - AD 538)- Evidence
- office
Text type
commentary
Ferrua proposes that IOAN is the name of the consul of either 467 CE (Puseo et Ioanne conns.) or 538 CE (Fl. Ioanne cons. per Orientem), presumably making this a dated funerary inscription.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285326
- EDR: 127522
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900407
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1980.0529
- Livia Bivona, «Nuove iscrizioni di Termini Imerese (Palermo)», Atti della Accademia di Scienze, Lettere a Arti di Palermo Ser.4, 35, fasc. 2 (1976 1975): 531–58, at 553 no.19 tav.9
- Antonio Ferrua, «Le iscrizioni datate della Sicilia paleocristiana», Kokalos 28–29 (1983 1982): 3–29, at 22 no.74
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 108
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/13/2025