ISic000206: Funerary inscription for Pompeia Rodia

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic000206
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Square plaque of local grey limestone, well-squared and in good condition, although front right bottom has a slight chip on face of stone. Protruded rear face.
Object type
plaque
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 26.5 cm, width: 27.5 cm, depth: 10.5 (not including protrusion) cm

Inscription

Layout
Two lines of Latin letters, roughly centred.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 36-43mm
Line 2: 34mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found in 1835, in Termini Imerese, outside Porta Girgenti
Map

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 49
Autopsy
Antoniou, 2022-07-06. On display in Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
Map

Date

Imperial, on the basis of form of letters (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Perhaps unsurprisingly, the gens Pompeia is very common in Sicily. Rodia (in both Greek and Latin) is attested elsewhere, but not in Sicily.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/24/2025