ISic000196: Fragmentary Latin inscription recording two individuals
- ID
- ISic000196
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy and previous editions;
- 2: Romano: TROG[-; Mommsen: BROGI[--; lapis: PROC or BROC
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two fragments of rectalinear grey stone, rounded on front, bulb on rear. Flat bottom. Top has a small step at top right and top left. Sides are missing, stones have been cut down from something larger. Broken into 2 after the modern paint was applied to sides. Modern pencil has been used to fill in letters on stone.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 17.5 cm, width: 29.5 cm, depth: 27 (with bulb at back, 18cm without) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin text. Comma shaped interpunct in line 1, with what appears to be a long downward linear interpunct in line 2. Heavily abraded on sides and bottom. Missing text on both left and right.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 39-46mm
- Line 2: 46 (measurement of only complete letter, other letters survive only to a maximum of 40mm)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the inscription is assumed to come from Termini Imerese; first recorded by Mommsen, who saw the stone.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 103ab
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 8, shelf 2
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Mommsen read Brogi, based apparently on the stone being in better condition at the time he made his edition of the text, although it is notable that Romano before him only read TROG. Bivona (1994) notes that this would lead to an odd cognomen, perhaps Brogitarus, and suggests that the current state of the stone would allow instead Broc[chus], a name attested in another inscription from Thermae Himeraeae, see ISic000133. The current state of the stone could also suggest Proc[ulus], a name also attested at Thermae Himeraeae, see ISic000097, Catina, see ISic000312, Mazara, see ISic000494 and Lilybaeum, see ISic000502 and ISic000516. Ultimately, we might want to trust that Mommsen saw more of the stone originally.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285220
- EDR: 127381
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100123
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità termitane (Palermo: Tipografia di Francesco Lao, 1838), at 115 no.38
- 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 10.7421
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 119
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/26/2024