ISic000767: Funerary honours for Aulus Mevius Zethus
- ID
- ISic000767
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A marble slab, rectangular in form with a moulded surround (dimensions not recorded). The slab is broken on the right side.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: ? cm, width: ? cm, depth: ? cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of Latin text filling the available field. The second line is slightly indented (and so centred?).
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: ?mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: ?mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Halaesa
- Provenance found
- Excavated before 1965 from a Roman villa in the vicinity of Halaesa, in contrada Lancinè
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- Uncertain; image from phot. arch. of soprint., no.3269-B
Date
2nd century CE, if Manganaro's link with is accepted. (AD 101 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The location of this stone is not currently known. Manganaro proposed reading optimo at the end of line 1 and that the name of a freedman, responsible for setting up the honorific, should stand at the end of line 2. The extent of the stone that is lost is unknown. The erection of posthumous honours or funerary monuments in accordance with a will is a common practice (a Sicilian example from Catania in ISic000380). It is possible that ISic000768 (dedication to Concordia by a sevir) was set up by the same Aulus Mevius Zethus, or a related individual, since the cognomen [-]ethus is preserved there. The gens Mevius is also attested at Taormina ISic000282 and at Termini (ISic000198, ISic000199); cf. Facella 2008: 288. The form of this text suggests a date in the first or second century AD.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175802
- EDR: 081545
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100295
- 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 1989.0345f
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 190 no.80 fig.86
- A. Facella, Alesa Arconidea: ricerche su un’antica città della Sicilia tirrenica (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2006), at 288
- Anna Maria Prestianni Giallombardo, «Spazio pubblico e memoria civica. Le epigrafi dall’agora di Alesa», in Agora greca e agorai di Sicilia, a c. di C. Ampolo (Pisa: Edizioni della Normale, 2012), 171–200, at 194 n.112
- J.R.W. Prag e G. Tigano, Alesa Archonidea: il lapidarium, Introduzione all’archeologia di Halaesa 8 (Palermo: Regione Siciliana, Assessorato beni culturali e identità siciliana, Dipartimento beni culturali e identità siciliana, 2017), at no.48
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021