ISic000212: Funerary epitaph for Publicia Euplea
- ID
- ISic000212
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large slab of grey stone. Top is intact with fine moulding. Sides and bottom are broken. Top is rounded, and back is flat.
- Object type
- No data
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 33 cm, width: 42 cm, depth: 11 (at top, with moulding), 9 (at bottom, without moulding) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of complete Latin text. L1 is centered within the stone, whereas lines 2-4 lean towards the right. Interpuncts are inconsistent.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 57-66mm
- Line 2: 39-48mm
- Line 3: 40-46mm
- Line 4: 38-39 (I with long top-bar, 45 mm)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese outside the porta di Caccamo (= Porta di Girgenti), south of the city, during excavation for the installation of water pipes.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 106
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 8, shelf 4
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
As emphasised by Bivona (1994), the funerary formula ('mortua annorum') is unique for Thermae Himeraeae, and indeed Sicily generally. Bivona (1994) suggests that Euplea was probably a freedwoman, having been a public slave. A variation of the name Euplea appears in Thermae Himeraeae, namely Euplia, ISic000174, as well as the masculine Euplus elsewhere in Sicily, see ISic003233. The names Publicia and Publicius appear elsewhere in Thermae Himeraeae, see ISic000059 and ISic000211, as well as in a variety of other places across Sicily.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285302
- EDR: 127528
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900659
- 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 130
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1994.0783
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 136
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025