ISic000225: Funerary epitaph for a certain Dionysius and Cn. Terentius Rufus, by the wife of the latter, Vibia Ammia
- ID
- ISic000225
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- Status
- No data
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Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
- 1: Line 1 presumably contained the praenomen and nomen of Dionysius.
- 4: Beginning of line 3 is obscured by surface abrasion, could be 'B' or 'P'
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Block of dirty yellow stone. Break along top, obscuring line 1, and break along left side. Bottom and right sides complete. Modern plaster and paint on top break.
- Object type
- No data
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 27 cm, width: 39 cm, depth: 14 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Five lines of Latin text, although first line is completely obscured. Likely only 1-2 letters are missing on the left side. Use of comma-shaped interpuncts in line 1 and the beginning of line 2, becoming more irregular after the deeply incised, perfectly rounded, dot-shaped interpunct before 'Rufo' at the end of line 2.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: irrecoverable, as only the bottom of two letters survive.mm
- Line 2: 27-29mm
- Line 3: 36-38 (first T=45 mm, last O=20mm)mm
- Line 4: 35-38mm
- Line 5: 24-29 (Ts 29-31mm)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found outside the Palermo Gate, "stuck in a small wall of a modern nursery", from which Palmieri had it placed "in the House of the Civic Magistrate". Afterwards transferred to Museo Civio Baldassare Romano.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- 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
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Text type
commentary
While the relationship between the dedicant (Ammia) and the latter dedicatee (Rufus) is made explicit (wife and husband), the relationship between Ammia and the former dedicatee (Dionysius) is not made clear. Unlike Rufus, Dionysius is a Greek cognomina. Dionysius is extremely with two other examples in Thermae Himeraeae alone, see ISic000188, ISic000168. Bivona (1994) records that there is a disparity of opinions on the origin of the cognomen Ammia, preferring Celtic or Lydian. On the basis that Rufus' praenomen, Gnaeus, differs from that of his father, Spurius, Bivona (1994) suggests that this was a false patronymic, suggesting the illegitimacy of his birth. There are a handful of other attested members of gens Terentia in Sicily, for which see Bivona (1994) and ISic001497.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285233
- EDR: 127460
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100143
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, «Antiche iscrizioni inedite appartenenti alla città di Termini Imerese», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 28 (1829): 289–308, at 297 no.4
- 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 10.7441
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 150
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/23/2024