ISic001142: I.Sicily inscription 001142
- ID
- ISic001142
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text of autopsy ;
- line.3: Kaibel reads[Βι]ότη in line 3, but as Brugnone (1974) notes, the first visible letter is more likely an uncial 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 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 1.8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Greek text
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Letters are extremely thin, and curved. The first vertical stem of the eta in line 2 appears to join the vertical stem of the kappa in line 1, thus making it difficult to be precise about letter heights in lines 1-2. The orthography is extremely strange, particularly in the tail of the tau in line 3 which gives the impression of the letter 'J'.
- 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
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492755
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102299
- PHI: 140627
- Printed editions
- G. Kaibel, Inscriptiones Graecae Siciliae et Italiae, additis graecis Galliae Hispaniae, Britanniae, Germaniae inscriptionibus, Inscriptiones Graecae consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae Editae. Volumen XIV., XIV (Berlin: Georgius Reimerus, 1890), at 323
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Iscrizione greche del museo civico di Termini Imerese», Kokalos 20 (1974): 218–64, at 20*
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025