ISic000192: Fragmentary Latin funerary epitaph
- ID
- ISic000192
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- edited
- Links
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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
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Text is deeply and broadly incised into the stone, except for the interpuncts. Letters do not uniformly follow the line, and are of varying sizes. O at end of line 2 is much smaller than the rest of the text. Spacing is inconsistent, with the Xs on line three touching. Light serifs used on letters.
- 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
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175702
- EDR: 077920
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900398
- 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 1980.0520
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 114
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/25/2024