ISic000303: Epitaph for L. Roscius Rufus

Apparatus criticus

• Text from Korhonen 2004 (supplement to line 2 proposed by Eck)

Physical description

Support

Description

No data

Object type

plaque

Material

marble

Condition

No data

Dimensions

height: 14.5 cm, width: 67 cm, depth: 2.7-4.8 cm

Inscription

Layout

No data

Text condition

No data

Letter heights

Lines 1-2: 22-28mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured

Provenance

Place of origin

Catina

Provenance found

First recorded in 18th century in re-use 'Nel chiostro dei PP. Domenicani sotto titolo di S. Domenico fuori le mura' (Amico)

Current location

Place

Catania, Italy

Repository

Museo Civico di Catania , 642

Autopsy

sala VII.286, mag. sup.

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 491513
• EDR: 139982
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 21900338
• PHI: -

Printed editions

• 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 10.7019
• W. Eck, „Senatoren und senatorische Grundbesitz auf Sizilien“, in Catania antica. Atti del Convegno della societa italiana di studi sull’antichita classica, Catania 1992 (Pisa-Rome, 1996), 231–56, at 236-237
• W. Eck, „Senatorische familien der kaiserzeit in der provinz Sizilien“, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113 (1996): 109–28, at 112
• Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 16

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• James Chartrand
• Valeria Vitale
• Michael Metcalfe
• Tom Gavin
• Simona Stoyanova
• system
• Victoria Fendel

Last revision

7/24/2025