ISic000190: Funerary plaque for Lesbius and Damophilus
- ID
- ISic000190
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rough yellow/white rectalinear block of limestone. Top and bottom edges are likely original, left and right sides broken. Back is flat, but traces of modern mortar. Traces of modern paint on sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 18.5 cm, width: 23.5 (at widest), 20 (at shortest) cm, depth: 9 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, without much room on sides. Multiple types of interpunct used throughout, although all faint on stone.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 39-42mm
- Line 2: 41-42mm
- Line 3: 36-38mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in the ruins of the Castle at Termini Imerese, in 1886
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 8, shelf 1
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
It is clear that lines 1-2 address the dedicatees, both freedmen, but that line 3 would have included the name of the dedicant. The cognomen Lesbius, of Greek origin, is common. The cognomen Damophilus, also of Greek origin, is less common but nonetheless elsewhere attested in the empire.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285319
- EDR: 127544
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900656
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- W. Henzen and K. F. W. Zangemeister, Ephemeris Epigraphica. Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementum, Edita Iussu Instituti Archaeologici Romani, 9 vols (Berlin: G. Reimerum, 1872), at VIII 706
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 337
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 112
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
- 7/25/2024