ISic000396: I.Sicily inscription 000396

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
ISic000396
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of CIL, amended by Ferrua;
  • 4: Amico read a confused sequence of letters after DECEMB, and conjectured FL.STILICO, and Ferrua concurs; Mommsen instead proposed FL.OPILIO

Physical description

Support

Description
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Object type
plaque
Material
stone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
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Text condition
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Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded.

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Autopsy
None

Date

400 CE (consular date) (AD 400 – AD 400)
Evidence
internal-date

Text type

funerary

commentary

If Mommsen's reading of line 4 is accepted, the date is either 453 or 521 CE. Ferrua notes that Stilicho was also consul II in 405, but the absence of indication of iteration leads him to prefer 400 CE.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/8/2021