ISic000236: Funerary inscription for Marcus Voluscius Felix

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic000236
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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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

funerary

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).

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/24/2025