ISic000191: Fragmentary Latin epitaph
- ID
- ISic000191
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 4: Trace of a serif on the right edge, compatible with V
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a dark blue-grey and white variegated marle plaque, intact on the left, including the upper left corner, but broken top, right and below. Finished rough and uneven behind, with left edge cut back from the front.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 23.5 cm,聽width: 12.5 cm,聽depth: 2.8-3.3 (bottom to top) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters, line 1 set far left, lines 2-4 indented with a consistent margin. Only 8mm is preserved below line 4, leaving it uncertain whether the text continued below or not.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Neat v-cut letters of moderately wide module. P is open, O large, M with near vertical first and last strokes, full-length middle strokes.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 42mm
- Line 2: 32-33mm
- Line 3: 28-29mm
- Line 4: 25mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 9-10mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 13-15mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 17mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Romano (1838), originally walled into the front of the 'Casa del Civico Magistrato' in Termini before being moved to the civic museum.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 33
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-07, depositi of the Museo Civico, room 1, rack 3, shelf 2.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285223
- EDR: 127386
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100118
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, Antichit脿 termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 112 no.31
- 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 7416
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 113
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/13/2025