ISic000667: Funerary inscription for Pontius
- ID
- ISic000667
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after ISegesta L15;
- 2: Nenci: XXX
- 3: Nenci: Indi(ctione) II
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A thick paving slab of the local stone, re-used as a tomb cover in late-antiquity and then re-used again in the settlement circuit wall of the Norman period. The surface is rather worn, and damaged in the upper left corner. The rear appears uneven.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 60 cm, width: 112 cm, depth: 36 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin letters roughly centred and concentrated in the lower half of the face.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-3: 48-98mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Segesta
- Provenance found
- Found in 1990 in re-use in the Normal period circuit wall, in the SW corner of room B1 (US3522)
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Segesta, Italy
- Repository
- Parco archeologico di Segesta ,
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
17 May 524 CE, dated by the consulate of Opilio and the second indiction. (AD 524 – AD 524)- Evidence
- office
Text type
commentary
The only funerary inscription to date from Segesta, this provides important evidence for the continuity of settlement in Segesta in the sixth century CE in the period of the Gothic domination.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491376
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 5000364
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « 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 1991.0900
- Giuseppe Nenci, «Un’iscrizione latina cristiana da Segesta», Numismatica e antichità classiche 20 (1991): 253–55, at 253-255
- Giuseppe Nenci, «Florilegio epigrafico segestano», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 21 (1991): 920–29, at 929 no.11 tav. CCCIV.2
- Stefania De Vido, «appendice: fonti letterarie, epigrafiche, numismatiche, etc.», Annali della Scuola Normale Superiore di Pisa, Classe di Lettere e Filosofia 21 (1991): 929–94, at 980
- C. Michelini, «Reimpiego di iscrizioni a Segesta», in Sicilia Epigraphica. Atti del convegno internazionale, Erice, 15-18 ottobre 1998, a c. di M. I. Gulletta, vol. 2, Quaderni 2 (Pisa: Classe di Lettere e Filosofia, 1999), 439–48, at 444-445
- Carmine Ampolo e Donatella Erdas, Inscriptiones Segestanae. Le iscrizioni greche e latine di Segesta (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2019), at L15
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 4/16/2024