ISic000709: Funerary epitaph for Publius Scribonius Sollemnis
- ID
- ISic000709
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- text from autopsy (Prag);
- 4: Manganaro: sib[i e]t
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large, thick plaque of fine white crystalline marble. Broken into 14 pieces, which can be joined together, leaving lacunae int he upper right corner and at two points in the interior, upper and lower left. The stone appears to re-use an earlier monument, from the traces of large Hellenistic Greek letters visible along the face of the lower edge, and due to the fact that each edge is differently finished reflecting a mixture of earlier surfaces and subsequent cutting down for the Latin inscription. The Greek letters are very slightly truncated along the lower edge. The top edge is roughly finished and cut back behind; the right edge has a smooth finish to half its depth and then becomes rough; the lower edge is finished, but with a distinct patina from the other finished faces, and the left edge has the same finish, albeit with what appear to be deliberate cut-aways from the surface. The face is square and finished smooth, bordered by a double moulding. The rear is cut straight and finished smooth.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 45.5 cm, width: 50.5 cm, depth: 4.7-5.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Multiple sets of guidelines are visible on the upper 2/3 of the face, which do not obviously correlate wiht the inscription, and which include a trace at the start of line 2 which belongs either to a false start or possibly an earlier text.
- Text condition
- deteriorated
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 80mm
- Line 2: 72mm
- Line 3: 70-72mm
- Line 4: 37mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 35mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 18mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 15mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Recovered from the foundations of the palazzo Rinascente during construction, 1957-1959, on the site of the Palazzo Spitaleri (so Manganaro, reporting one sig. Noe
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Regionale Archeologico di Catania
- Autopsy
- Prag 2024-09-23
Date
1st century CE (AD 1 – AD 99)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175771
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100274
- 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 1989.0341l
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 172 no.42 fig.46
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/23/2025