ISic000230: Funerary inscription for Vecilia
- ID
- ISic000230
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Castelli: VICILIA L. F
- 2: Castelli: VIX. ANN. XXX.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular stele, grey limestone. Sides relatively squared, with chips on top and bottom faces. Rear tapers to flat surface. Significant later damage, including later graffiti scratched onto front face. Large scratches on front face.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 32 cm, width: 67.5 cm, depth: 21 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin text, roughly centred on stone, but all contained within top half of the stone. Small dash interpunct is evident in line 1, but possible traces elsewhere. Graffiti squeezed into stone between left edge of stone and start of text, and roughly follows lines of inscription (but far from faithfully).
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 36-41mm
- Line 2: 35-42mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese in 1783 (so Castelli 1784), and in the local senate house collection by 1829 (Romano).
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 124
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-08. On display in the courtyard portico of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Map
Date
Bivona (1994, 239) dates to the first half of the 1st century CE based on the missing cognomen. (AD 1 – AD 50)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Vecilia, unusually, has a praenomen, presumably adopted from her father, Lucius. Vecilii are well-attested in Thermae Himeraeae, see esp. ISic000231, ISic000229, and ISic000228. Romano notes that Castelli's text, which was at second hand, was somewhat inaccurate.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285307
- EDR: 127533
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100146
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 331 no.4
- 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 303 no.14
- 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 10.7444
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 155
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/30/2023