ISic000197: Fragmentary Latin text recording a Caius Metellus
- ID
- ISic000197
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Romano, followed by Mommsen and Bivona
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Romano as 'frammento di bella lapide, alta pal. 1 siciliano e lung pal. 2 incirca". That implies marble, but there can be no certainty.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 25 cm, width: 50 cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Recorded by Romano as found at Termini between 1838 and 1854; not however seen by Mommsen or others since.
Current location
Lost.
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bivona infers that the missing space on the right is not great, and so assumes the absence of a cognomen, but it is not entirely clear why this should be so. "Cla" in line 2 is likely to be a tribal abbreviation.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285299
- EDR: 127524
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100124
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, Antichità inedite di vario genere trovate in Sicilia (Palermo, 1854), at p.22 no.42
- 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 10.7422
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 120
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/26/2024