ISic000188: Funerary epitaph of Marcus Iulius Dionysus
- ID
- ISic000188
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Thick slab of grey limestone. Cut straight across the bottom edge. Picked finish on left and right sides, straight edges. Curved around the top and mostly intact but chipped and damaged front upper left. The rear is only roughly finished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 37 cm, width: 45.5 cm, depth: 10 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of fairly irregularly cut Latin letters, roughly centered.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 75-82mm
- Line 2: 49-58mm
- Line 3: 48-64mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 17-21mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 10-36mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The context of discovery is not recorded, first referenced by Bivona 1975-1976 in the museo civico.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 59
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-04, depositi of the museo civico, room 1, rack 1, shelf 6.
- Map
Date
Imperial period; other members of the gens occur in 2nd and 3rd century CE (AD 101 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175701
- EDR: 077919
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900397
- 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 1980.0519
- 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 544 no.7 tav.4
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 110
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
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021