ISic000198: Funerary Epitaph for Mevia Faustin[---]
- ID
- ISic000198
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 4: Bivona (1994) records a triangular interpunct at the beginning of line 4. Autopsy reveals it is a hedera, comparable (although higher on the line) with the hedera later in the same line.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments of a whiteish marble plaque, broken across the middle roughly halfway down plaque. The larger fragment (A) has two original edges on top and left. All other sides broken, but a vacat is preserved below the last line of letters in the lower fragment (B). Back of both fragments is flat. A: H=19 cm, W=18; B: H=10.5, W=8.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 29.5 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 4.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of fragmentary Latin text. Lacuna on right is approximately 1 character.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Letters are wide and well-defined. Pronounced serifs on all letters. Cross-bar on 'As' in lines 3-4 are short. Hederae used in lines 1 and 4. The hedera in line 1 is large (the size of the other characters) and in outline only. The hederae in line 4 are small. Most letters are straight, except line three where they slope to the right.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 26-29mm
- Line 2: 26mm
- Line 3: 26-31mm
- Line 4: 25-27mm
- Line 5: 28mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The larger fragment was discovered in 1879 in the ruins of the castle. It is unknown where and when the smaller fragment was found.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 94
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 7, shelf 3.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Despite the lacuna on the right, it is likely that the epitaph is for a woman, Mevia Faustina. The gens Mevia is well-attested in Thermae Himeraeae, see ISic000119 and elsewhere in Sicily, notably at Tauromenium ISic000282, Halaesa ISic000767 and Lilybaeum ISic000625. Cicero also attests to Maeviae in Sicily, notably a Maevius, the scribe of Verres, who is named at Cic. Verr. 2.3.175). There is a Greek version of the name (Μηβία) also attested at Thermae Himeraeae, ISic001168.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285327
- EDR: 127470
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100125
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 83
- 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 7423
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 121
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/26/2024