ISic000194: Funerary inscription for Marcia, wife of Lucius Mammius
- ID
- ISic000194
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Bivona: M[an(ibus)]; it is speculation as to whether "Manibus" was abbreviated or not, although the size of the letters makes it very likely
- 2: The lower part of two vertical strokes are visible before the break.
- 5: Little more than an initial serif is visible at the break
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Thick plaque of compact limestone, intact on the left side but broken on the other three sides. The left side has a picked finish, the rear is roughly finished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 28.2 (face), 29.5 max cm, width: 29.6 cm, depth: 7.1 (left) - 6.4 (right) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text may or may not have been centred originally, with lines 2 and 4, containing the personal names, set slightly to the left.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 53mm
- Line 2: 37-40mm
- Line 3: 30-31mm
- Line 4: 26-28mm
- Line 5: 30-33 (I = 38)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 3mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 5-6mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 6-8mm
- Interlineation line 4 to 5: 6-10mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded in the Museo Civico by Mommsen in CIL (1883), on the basis of autopsy.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 82
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-05, in the depositi of the Museo Civico, room 1, rack 8, shelf 1.
- Map
Date
later first or second century CE (lettering and formula) (AD 50 – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
It is likely that the cognomen of the deceased is missing in line 2. In line 3 the absence of a mark of interpunctation after the final X suggests that there is nothing more missing on this line (which also speaks against a strictly centred and symmetrical text). The restoration of 'cast[issimae]' as already proposed by Mommsen in the final line seems very plausible and there are no realistic alternatives.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285221
- EDR: 127383
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100121
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 10.7419
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 117
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/26/2024