ISic000706: Epitaph of Lucius Arrius Hermes
- ID
- ISic000706
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text checked by Prag against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular marble cippus, damaged around the edges, with the front face / epigraphic field framed by a moulding.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 47.5 cm, width: 19 cm, depth: 14 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is laid out over ten very short lines, respecting word breaks until the final lines.
- Text condition
- complete
- Letter heights
- Line 1-10: 15-22mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- First recorded by Manganaro, who reports that it was given to the museum by a Catania antiquarian called Santillo; it is assumed to come from the area; currently in one of the basement storerooms.
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
End of 1st century CE or 2nd century CE (Korhonen) (AD 50 – AD 199)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
As Manganaro notes, it seems a little unusual that the deceased infant, a slave, is recorded with the full tria nomina, while the owner, Charito, is not (but presumably was Lucius Arrius Charito).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175768
- EDR: 081511
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100271
- 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 1989.0341i
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 171 no.39 fig.43
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 58
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/23/2025