ISic000224: Funerary epitaph for L. Tennius Herma
- ID
- ISic000224
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large rectalinear plaque in yellow stone. Abrasion on left side, but all sides intact. Discolouration around the text, presumably from something placed atop the stone. The rear is flat. Traces on modern paint and mortar on sides and splatter of paint on front.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 31.5 cm, width: 41 cm, depth: 3.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin text. Lines 1, 3 and 4 are roughly on the same alignment, but line 2 starts significantly further to the left than the others. The use of small and compact hederae on line 4 – the leftmost hedera is a little less clear than that on the right.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 40-50mm
- Line 2: 48-49mm
- Line 3: 38-41mm
- Line 4: 36-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese outside the Porta di Girgenti in 1878
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 1
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-06. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 12, shelf 3
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The cognomen, Herma, of Greek origin, is extremely common. By contrast, the gens Tennius is unique, although it is similar to the otherwise attested Stennius, Vettennius, Maetennius (etc).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285248
- EDR: 127461
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100142
- 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 358
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.7440
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 149
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025