ISic000216: Funerary Inscription for Rustia Asterin
- ID
- ISic000216
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Marble plaque in two fragments. Surface of inscription has degraded, with each piece stored separately and with two levels of surface degradation on each. Fragment break in upper left corner, but together plaque is whole and relatively square (top edge slants slightly upwards to the right). Rear is relatively flat, but for slight protrusion on right. Photo and text of Bivona (1994) suggests it was intact at that time.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 20 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, not centred, but slightly over to right. Use of hederae in line three.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 37-41mm
- Line 2: 28-32mm
- Line 3: 24-27mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the piece is assumed to come from Termini Imerese
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 12
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-13. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 1, shelf 4.
- Map
Date
Mid 3rd century CE (Ferrua) (AD 201 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The gens Rustia is well-attested elsewhere in Sicily, and elsewhere in the empire. The cognomen, Asterin, is of Greek origin, but is found elsewhere in the empire in Latin. Ferrua (1941) considers Asterin to be a shortened version of Asterium, and a version of the latin Stellina. Ferrua posits that Rustia was a freedmwoman.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175730
- EDR: 076858
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900660
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « 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 1994.0784
- « 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 1977.0334
- Antonio Ferrua, «Analecta sicula», Epigraphica 3 (1941): 252–70, at 260 no.16
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 140
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025