ISic000234: Fragmentary funerary inscription to Marcus Villius(?)
- ID
- ISic000234
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after autopsy ;
- 2: A hedera is incorporated into the third stroke of the initial M
- 3: annis (or annos) is presumably abbreviated, but the precise form would be speculation.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small fragment of grey-white limestone plague. Right half of stone missing, broken right edge. Rear face is smooth.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 22.5 cm, width: 24.5 (at widest), 17 (at shortest) cm, depth: 8.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of fragmentary Latin text, within chiselled border on left side. Chiselled border ends at top and bottom with large dots. Text appears centred on stone, but impossible to confirm without right edge.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 30mm
- Line 2: 26-32mm
- Line 3: 24-26mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in Termini Imerese, in 1883, among the materials of ancient buildings in the old castle.
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 66
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 3, shelf 6.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
There are no other attestations of this gens in Sicily. Bivona (1994) notes that there was a P. Villius Tappulus who was praetor in Sicily in 203 BCE, but correctly emphasises that this is 'too remote a past to be able to reasonably find a connection between the two'.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285290
- EDR: 127513
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900664
- 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 302
- « 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 1994.0787
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 160
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025