ISic001155: Funerary inscription for Gaios Seios Ptolemaios
- ID
- ISic001155
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular plaque of grey stone, carved to create a tabula ansata in relief. Very straight sides with no visible cuts or breaks and the text is complete. The front face is cut back from the original surface, to create a tabula ansata, but only the right 'handle' of the tabula is preserved, along with the central field for the text. The lack of the left 'handle' and the presence of a possible bracket hole on top, suggest another block was placed on the left. Front face is clean, but with slight blackened discolouration at the beginnings of lines 3-4. Rear is flat but for curved eges on each corner.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- stone (grey)
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 17 cm, width: 48.5 cm, depth: 9.5 (at middle) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Ancient Greek text. Text is contained within right side of tabula ansata. Text is centred on stone.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 33mm
- Line 2: 29-33mm
- Lines 3-4: 33-38mm
- 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 piece is assumed to come from Termini Imerese
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 158
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-06. On display in Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Map
Date
2nd century BCE or 1st century CE (200 BC – AD 100)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Gaios and Seios derive from the Latin praenomen Gaius and nomen Seius. Gaius is very common, and Seius is well-attested in Sicily, beginning in the first century CE (see RPC 1.670 and ISic000539). As argued by Brugnone (1974) Samareus is an ethnic, cf. Roberts (1969 no.369). Brugnone (1974) also suggests that the connection between the name Ptolemy and Samaria is not surprising, as Ptolemaic Egypt had an interest in Samaria.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492768
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 38000224
- PHI: 140640
- PHI: 178085
- Printed editions
- Association pour l’encouragement des études greques, « Bulletin épigraphique », Revue des études grecques, 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/797735566, at 1969.0369
- 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 14.0336
- R. Cagnat, J. Toutain, and P. Jouguet, Inscriptiones Graecae ad res Romanas pertinentes, 4 vols (Paris: Ernest Leroux, 1906), at 506
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Iscrizione greche del museo civico di Termini Imerese», Kokalos 20 (1974): 218–64, at 6
- D. Noy, Jewish Inscriptions of Western Europe, 2 vols (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1993), at no.161
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/21/2023