ISic000208: I.Sicily inscription 000208

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
ISic000208
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of autopsy compared with earlier edition and photographs of ILTermini

Physical description

Support

Description
Three fragments of small, yellow/white marble plaque. Bivona's photo and edition records the plaque as being in two pieces, with missing text to the right and bottom. Since then, the plaque has been broken into three pieces, with two fragments now missing (a sizeable part of the 'D' in line 1 is now missing, as is most of the 'S' and the interpunct in line 3). Green discolouration due to application of modern inventory numbers. Rear is flat, face is polished. Top edge tapers upwards towards centre.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 11 cm, width: 13 cm, depth: 0.8 cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of fragmentary Latin text. Large + shaped interpunct in line 1 (Bivona classifies this as a hedera). Bivona's photo shows an interpunct in line 3, in comma shape.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 24mm
Line 2: 29-30mm
Line 3: At least 24mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found with in Termini Imerese in the piano di Si. Antonio, during the works for the construction of new buildings.

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
Autopsy
Antoniou, 2023-07-07. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 13, shelf 3
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

It is possible that we might restore Prim[igen]ius in lines 2-3, followed by the dedicatee's age in years (vixit), but it is impossible to know given the condition of the plaque.

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
4/30/2024