ISic000383: Funerary inscription for Vipsanius Atticus
- ID
- ISic000383
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text frmo autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 30 cm, width: 29 cm, depth: 4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 35-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: not measured
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in 1849 during excavation of the foundations of the Hospital of S.Marco (Palazzo Tezzano), on the north side of Piazza Stesicoro
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 350
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.23
- Map
Date
Later 1st or earlier 2nd century CE (AD 50 – AD 150)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The formula vivus sibi et suis is common, reflecting the fact that Vipsanius set up a family funerary monument. The name Vipsanius is common in Catania, and it is likely that these are descendants of freedmen of Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, the right-hand man of Octavian, who gained property in Sicily after his victory over Sextus Pompeius in 36 BC. The form vivos, instead of the normal vivus, is more common in earlier Latin.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491594
- EDR: 138809
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900423
- 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 10.7101
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 50 and tav.19.29
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 171 no.37 fig.40
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 145
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021