ISic000195: Funerary inscription for Margar
- ID
- ISic000195
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Mommsen, Bivona: [D(is)] M(anibus]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small plaque of grey marble (coarse, crystalline). In relation to the inscription the plaque is seemingly intact above, to the right and below, but broken on the left. The edges are rough, the rear rough and very irregular in depth. The surface is well finished wtih a bounding line incised vertically down the right margin of the text. Minor damage to the surface, upper right.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 14.4-14.8 cm, width: 20.3 (max) cm, depth: 3.8 (max) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin letters, decreasing in size, and probably centred on the stone.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 35-36mm
- Line 2: 31-35mm
- Line 3: 17-23mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- First recorded in Termini by Romano, as being in the casa del civico magistrato; subsequently seen by Mommsen in the museum.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 52
- Autopsy
- Prag, 2022-07-06, on display on the ground floor of the museum.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Either Margaris or Margarita is likely as the name at the end of line 1 (either continuing into line 2, or simply abbreviated). Mommsen, followed by Bivona, opted to read the initial letter as M (difficult to see what else it could be) and to interpret it as part of D(is) M(anibus). As Bivona notes, this is unusual inline with the name. It is at least as likely that Margar is preceded by a nomen, albeit one that has, like Margar, been abbreviated of its ending.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285246
- EDR: 127382
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100122
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 115 no.37
- 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 10.7420
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 118
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/26/2024