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: edited
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Edition

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
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Latin is relatively regular, tall and narrow, with minimal serifs. Lines are relatively straight, and letter spacing is extremely regular, except between the 'R' and 'o' in line 2. The 'M' in line 1 is slightly misaligned with the rest of the text.
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.

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

8/13/2025