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
- CIL at 10.7460 Zotero FAIR
- Gualtherus (1624) at no. 142 Zotero FAIR
- Gualtherus (1624) at 47 no. 301 Zotero FAIR
- 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 Zotero FAIR
- 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 Zotero FAIR
- Castelli (1769) at cl. 11 no. 31 Zotero FAIR
- Castelli (1784) at cl. 11 no. 32 Zotero FAIR
- 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 Zotero FAIR
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 210-211 Zotero FAIR
- G. Scibona and G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea. Guide to the Antiquarium (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, 2008), at 52 ph Zotero FAIR
- 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 Zotero FAIR
- 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 Zotero FAIR
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