ISic000305: Fragmentary honorific or funerary text for a member of a senatorial family
- ID
- ISic000305
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of CIL
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two joining fragments from the middle of a large white marble plaque, broken on all sides.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 33 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Lines of equal height, faint guidelines visible
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Fine V-cut letters of a slightly squat module, some compression in line 2. Interpuncts somewhat irregular but slightly triangular in form.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 65mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- First observed, in the Biscari collection, by Mommsen. The stone could in principle come from either Centuripe or Catania, given the attested presence of the Pompeii Sosii at Centuripe, and Biscari's activities in Centuripe. Now in the Museo civico, sala VI.161, mag. del cort
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 353
- Autopsy
- photographed by Prag 2018-07-06
- Map
Date
Second half of 2nd century CE, assuming the proposed restoration attributing to the Pompeii Sosii is correct. (AD 151 - AD 200)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
According to Eck's reconstruction, this is an honorary inscription on behalf of a member of the gens Sosia, a descendant of Sosius Senecio (PIR S 560, cos. 99 and 107), either Pompei Sosia Falconilla in K's version A, or Pompeius Sosius Priscus or his generation in version B (both are after Eck). The family is well attested in eastern Sicily (cf. IMusCat 13), esp. Centuripe. Note that this is a (rare) Sicilian senatorial family. Reconstruction of text according to Eck: v. 1: [Sosiae Falconillae] OR [------] v. 2: [Pompei] So[si Prisci] OR [---]So[si Senecio-] v. 3: [consula]ris fil(iae) S[osi Se-] OR [praeto]ris fil(i-) S[osi] v. 4: [necioni]s co(n)s(ulis) II [pronep(ti)] OR [Senecioni]s co(n)s(ulis) II [nep(--)] v. 5: [Iuli Front]ini co(n)[s(ulis) III ab-] OR [Iuli Front]ini co(n)[s(ulis) III pron(ep-)] v. 6: [nep(ti) ---]VA MO[---] OR [---]VA MO[---
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175761
- EDR: 081504
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900340
- 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 7021
- « 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 1996.0793
- « 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 1989.0341b
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 167-168 no.32 fig.32
- W. Eck, „Senatorische familien der kaiserzeit in der provinz Sizilien“, Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 113 (1996): 109–28, at 115 no.52, 118
- 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.
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 14
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/27/2025