ISic000222: Funerary epitaph to T. Stat. Hil.
- ID
- ISic000222
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of autopsy ;
- line.1: Although Bivona records P(ublius), autopsy of the stone reveals that the stone reads 'T' followed by an interpunct. ;
- It is possible, though by no means certain, that one letter is missing at the end of line 1.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Cippus in grey stone, with a rounded top. Abrasions on the top edge, as well as modern paint and mortar. The left side tapers slightly to bottom, with an uneven bottom edge. Rear is inaccessible.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 47 cm, width: 40 cm, depth: 9.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin text, roughly centred on stone (although line 1 is quite crowded, and it is possible that letter is missing at the end of the line). Interpuncts used only in line 1, but they are irregular in shape from each other. There is a large 'G', inscribed in line 4 at the centre of the stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 61-68mm
- Line 2: 43-47mm
- Line 3: 36-42mm
- Line 4: 68mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Discovered by chance in the Necropolis di S.Antonino in Sep 1914, together with , , and , and moved to the Museum on the 25th of that month.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-06. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 12, shelf 5
- Map
Date
2nd century CE (in Biv.1975—6, not ILLTI) (AD 101 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Although it is unusual for all three elements of the tria nomina to be abbreviated, there are a handful of other instances in Termini where at least the nomen is abbreviated. The cognomen could equally be Hilarus, Hilario or Hilarius, and the nomen Statilius or Statius, both of which are attested elsewhere in Sicily, see for example, ISic000375, ISic000376, ISic003256". Although Bivona (1994) notes that there can be no certainty, Bivona gives preference to the expansion of the nomen as Statius rather than Statilus. Bivona notes that Titus was the sole praenomen of that gens. The new reading of the stone which demonstrates that the praenomen is T(itus) allows for the gens Statilia to be reconstructed here without issue, although again repeating Bivona's caution against any certainties here. Bivona notes the historical presence of T. Statilius Taurus in Sicily after the defeat of Sex. Pompeius and M. Aemilius Lepidus. The meaning of the large 'G' in line 4 is opaque.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175703
- EDR: 077924
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 8900402
- 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 1980.0524
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 147
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025