ISic001142: I.Sicily inscription 001142

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic001142
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of autopsy;
  • line.3: Kaibel reads [..]ότη in line 3, but as Brugnone (1974) notes, the first visible letter is more likely an italic omega than an omicron.

Physical description

Support

Description
Plaque of veiny grey-white marble. Large section of stone missing at bottom left. Front face is polished, back is flat.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 23.8 cmwidth: 20 cmdepth: 1.8 cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of Greek text
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 35-50mm
Line 2: 55-59mm
Line 3: 30-48mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the inscription is known to come from Termini Imerese

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 142
Autopsy
Antoniou, 2023-07-07. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 3, shelf 2
Map

Date

Brugnone doubts authenticity, on grounds of type of marble, and letter forms (?) (Unknown – Unknown)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Brugnone (1974) doubts the authenticity of the stone based on its marble and orthography, and recent of autopsy would tend to suggest that Brugnone is likely correct. If it is genuine, than the name rendered in lines 1-2 is likely Kanuleia, but the mason has not rendered the first alpha. Kanuleia must be related to the Latin Canuleius, attested as a plebeian gens. Brugnone speculates that Kanuleia is a freedwoman, as the surviving fragments of cognomen, likely ending 'ote', suggests that she is Greek, but that she assumed the nomen (Canuleius/Canuleia) of her Roman patron.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
4/29/2024