ISic000254: I.Sicily inscription 000254
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small fragment of dark grey, veiny stone plaque. Left edge is original, broken otherwise. Small imperfection at bottom of front face, with traces of mortar. Rear is flat, with rusted notes on the inscription fused to surface.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 16 (at left), 14 (at right) cm, width: 11 (at maximum) cm, depth: 3.7 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
- Type > subtype
- stone.unspecified > unspecified
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of fragmentary Latin text. Interpunct in line 2 appears as a rounded bracket. There is a large vacat at the bottom of the stone, indicating that there was likely no third line.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Large, precise, and tall letters. Serifs used on all letters.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: at least 29mm
- Line 2: 46-48mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the inscription is assumed to come from Termini Imerese
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- 25
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-07. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 13, shelf 3
- Map
Date
First or second century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
'Pii' could also be the beginning of piissimus. Either way, the letter string makes the identification of the fragment as a funerary inscription likely.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285215
- EDR: 127156
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900676
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Livia Bivona, «Nuove iscrizioni di Termini Imerese (Palermo)», Atti della Accademia di Scienze, Lettere a Arti di Palermo Ser.4, 35, fasc. 2 (1976 1975): 531–58, at 556 no.25 tav.11
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 180
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/10/2026