ISic000192: Fragmentary Latin funerary epitaph

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 2023-07-06
ID
ISic000192
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
stele
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Large rounded cippus of pale-grey stone. Broken right, rounded top. Tapers both left and right to the base. Bottom edge is original. The rear was inaccessible during autopsy.
Object type
stele
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 61 cm, width: 44 cm, depth: 9.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of Latin text (end of line 2 is obscured by break in stone). Use of roughly triangular interpuncts.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 85-98mm
Line 2: 52-70 (O=36)mm
Line 3: 46-53mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Discovered by chance in the Necropolis di S.Antonino in September 1914, together with , , and , and moved to the Museum on the 25th of that month.
Map

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 60
Autopsy
Antoniou, 2023-07-06. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 12, shelf 5
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bivona (1994) hypothetically suggests that the missing name, in the dative case, at the end of line 2, is a member of the gens Lollia, known elsewhere in Termini, see ISic000058.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/25/2024