ISic000761: Funerary inscription for Alb[----] Pompeius Marcellus
- ID
- ISic000761
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
Text of Manganaro 1989
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble plaque, broken off above and lower left, but with parts of left and right margin and lower right corner preserved. Text is framed within a double border.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 11-15 cm, width: 22.5 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text is framed by a double border, with well spaced letters filling the field.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-5: 20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Morgantina
- Provenance found
- Described by Manganaro simply as found at Morgantina, in the property of a citizen of Aidone; apparently gifted to Manganaro, and not seen since.
Current location
- Place
- Morgantina, Italy
- Repository
- private collection
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Manganaro suggests C1 BCE (on the basis of lettering?), but concedes it could be imperial, and a first century CE date seems more likely. (AD 1 – AD 100)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Manganaro speculatively restores the name as [-]Cornelius Albinianus Pompeius Marcellus, but this seems pure speculation, as does the claim that the missing dedicant in the first part of the text was 'certamente un Cornelius(?) Pompeius'.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175797
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100290
- 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 1989.0344d
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 6 n.8
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 187 no.74 fig.79
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
- 5/30/2025