ISic000584: Funerary inscription for Marcus Limbricius and his wife Helvia Arura
- ID
- ISic000584
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A thick tablet of compact white limestone. The lower left and lower right corners are lost, and the slab is cracked in half vertically down the middle. Left edge is finished smooth and straight; top edge is lightly cut back to the rear and rough; the right and lower edges preserve a carefully cut moulding, which strongly implies that the slab has been re-used from a previous base or other structure.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 37 cm, width: 51.8 cm, depth: 5.4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Latin text preserved in full over four lines, vertically centred on the stone, with a vacat below. The first line is the largest, the third line smallest and most compressed.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 42-45mm
- Line 2: 38-42mm
- Line 3: 33-38mm
- Line 4: 36-40mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 17-20mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 18-20mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 14-17mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- First reported by Antonio Agustín in the church of S. Maria dei Palazzi.
- Map
Current location
Lost by the time of Castelli, Principe di Torremuzza (later C18).
Date
1st century CE (AD 1 – AD 100)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
As a funerary inscription, this text must originally have stood with a tomb outside the city, before being transported at a later date to the church where it was first recorded in the sixteenth century in a manuscript of Atonio Agustín (Matritensis 5781 f.22 no.9, ap. Prestianni Giallombardo 1993a: Tav.1). The form of the letters suggests a text of the first century AD. Limbricius is probably of Campanian origin, and Puteoli specifically, as suggested by the other evidence for the family and tribe; Cicero attests to the interest of businessmen from Puteoli in Sicily (Verr. 2.5.154; see further Facella 2006: 210-211; the Falerna tribe is not otherwise attested in Sicily, see Prag 2010). The name Helvia is common, and Arura is one of a group of names linked to geographic origin and rural background.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491841
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100579
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at no. 142
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 47 no. 301
- Ludovico Antonio Muratori, Novus thesaurus veterum inscriptionum in praecipuis earumdem collectionibus hactenus praetermissarum, collectore Ludovico Antonio Muratorio .... Tomus secundus, vol. 2 (Mediolani: ex aedibus Palatinis, 1740), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Muratori1740Vol2, at 1366 no. 11
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Storia di Alesa, antica città di Sicilia (Palermo: Stamperia de SS. Appostoli in Piazza Vigliena, presso Pietro Bentivenga, 1753), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1763, at 151-152 no. 9
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl. 11 no. 31
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl. 11 no. 32
- 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 10.7460
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Revisioni epigrafiche alesine e nuove inedite trascrizioni della grande tabula di Alesa», Kokalos 39–40 (1993): 528–33, at 529 fig.1
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 210-211
- G. Scibona and G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea. Guide to the Antiquarium (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008), at 52 ph
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Spazio pubblico e memoria civica. Le epigrafi dall’agora di Alesa», in Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, a c. di C. Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 171–200, at 189 n.28
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.38
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 2/7/2022