ISic000236: Funerary inscription for Marcus Voluscius Felix
- ID
- ISic000236
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Grey-stone marble plaque, sides rough but not broken. Rear is flat. Front surface is smooth and polished. Modern red paint on sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 31 cm, width: 36.5 cm, depth: 8.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin text, not centred on stone. Three different interpuncts used: L1 triangular, L2 comma and dash.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 59-63mm
- Line 2: 48-52mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found between 1784 and 1829 in Termini Imerese (exact provenance unknown), and in the local civic collection by 1829 (Romano).
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 4, shelf 3.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The gens Voluscius is rare across the empire, found only in Italy (CIL 10.5150), Rome, (CIL 6.29511), Spain (Olisipo 14), and Sardinia (AE 2003, 805). A tribune of the plebs by the name of M. Volscius Fictor is also recorded by Livy (3.13.1) and Dionysius of Halicarnassus (Ant. Rom. 10.7.1).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285269
- EDR: 127488
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100150
- 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 305 no.18
- 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 10.7448
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 163
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025