ISic000694: Funerary epitaph for Asinia Charmosyne
- ID
- ISic000694
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy (earlier editions did not note interpuncts, hedera, or supraline);
- 5: Manganaro: M.Allianus
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A thick marble plaque with extensive blue-grey veining. Intact, edges roughly finished, rear finished only around the edges and projecting unevenly towards the centre. Some surface damage to the face, upper left and lower right.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 21.8 cm, width: 28.9 cm, depth: 4.0-6.5 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- Six lines of latin approximately centred, the last line smaller and set to the left.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Deep v-cut letters with simple terminal serifs. Some letters tending to curved, particularly V, but also tail to F; L and I almost indistinguishable. Simple dash interpuncts.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 31-32mm
- Line 3-4: 28-31mm
- Line 5: 22-29mm
- Line 6: 15-16 (F tail to 19)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tyndaris high certainty
- Provenance found
- Said to come from the area of 'insula 4', but if so it was presumably in secondary deposition.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Tindari, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Tindari , 28720
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-12, on display in the antiquarium
- Map
Date
later first or second century CE (AD 50 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Solin rejects Manganaro's reading of MALLIENUS in line 5 as M(arcus) Allienus, partly because the absence of a gentilicium would be odd and partly because of the absence of an interpunct after the M (which autopsy confirms to be absent). Fasolo repeats Manganaro's text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175753
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100262
- 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 1991.0901
- « 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 1989.0338n
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 165 no.22 fig.22
- Heikki Solin, ‘Analecta epigraphica’, Arctos: acta philologica fennica 24 (1990): 121–34, at 134 no.139
- M. Fasolo, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari (Rome: MediaGEO, 2013), at 85 no.33 fig.59
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 2/19/2026