ISic000452: I.Sicily inscription 000452
- ID
- ISic000452
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bivona
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 37.5 cm, width: 118 cm, depth: 4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Roma
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3868
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Christian (AD 200 – AD 600)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Mommsen suggested that this text was originally from Siracusa; however Ferrua (1940) identified this stone already in the antiquarian tradition at Rome (ap. Marini). Ferrua concluded that this is an antiquarian copy of a Roman original; Bivona is more circumspect and there is no immediate reason to assume that it is not the Roman original (however autopsy is required). One of Ferrua's principal arguments was the absence of an initial F on the Palermo stone and a vacat large enough to exclude its presence; however the lower part of the F is clearly visible in the photograph in Bivona.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491680
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900514
- 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 10.7173
- « 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 1948.0171
- Antonio Ferrua, «Due pseudoepigrafi cristiane di Siracusa», Rivista di Archeologia Cristiana 17 (1940): 276–78, at 277-278 with fig.1
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 368
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021