ISic000382: I.Sicily inscription 000382

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
ISic000382
Language
Latin and Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
unknown
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Amico, following suggestions of Mommsen;
  • 1: Amico: ...BVILIVS
  • 2: Amico: ...VNAIVS
  • 3: Amico: ...I AN. LX.
  • 4: Amico: ... LIICΛΛRI
  • 5: Amico: ...IHC

Physical description

Support

Description
No description is provided by Amico, but the text / stone is clearly damaged on the left side.
Object type
unknown
Material
stone
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
five lines of text, of which the first three are clearly latin, but the final two may be Greek.
Text condition
partly_illegible
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded; seen by Amico 'apud Vincentium Michaelangelum' prior to 1740.

Current location

Now seems to be lost (no record subsequent to Amico is based upon autopsy).

Date

Imperial period (AD 1 – AD 400)
Evidence
textual-context

Text type

funerary

commentary

It is very unclear what might have been originally on the stone that is rendered by the printed transcription of Amico for lines 4 to 5. It seems very possible that lines 4-5 were originally a Greek element subsequent to the core latin epitaph (and the end of line 5 in particular looks like a Greek ending, with lunate sigma); but other interpretations are possible, and it may have been a second name or other addition in Latin.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
9/24/2024