ISic001161: Funerary inscription for Pholoinia(?)
- ID
- ISic001161
- Language
- Ancient Greek
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: Phi is a likely restoration for the first letter, given what appears to be a repetition of the same name (Pholoinia) in line 3. If so, we should imagine a very long vertical bar on the Phi as in line 3.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large fragmentary tablet of limestone. Broken along right and left edges. Rear is relatively flat, but with modern rust damage
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 29 cm, width: 24 cm, depth: 9 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of fragmentary Greek text, with missing text on both sides.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 39-45mm
- Line 2: 38-44mm
- Line 3: 36-62 (long vertical bar on Phimm
- Line 4: 35-41mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found on 26 April 1884 among the ruins of the ancient Castello of Termini Imerese.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 136
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-13. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 1, shelf 4.
- Map
Date
2nd century CE (?) (AD 101 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The name Pholoinia is unique and appears nowhere else in extant epigraphy. Besides from the repetition of the name, text is too fragmentary to guess at the rest of the inscription. The presence of the nominative doric form ματήρ suggests that the inscription should be considered Hellenistic and not imperial in date, but the structural form of the epitaph suggests the Roman period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492773
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 39102317
- PHI: 140646
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 199 = 351
- 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 14.0341
- Antonietta Brugnone, «Iscrizione greche del museo civico di Termini Imerese», Kokalos 20 (1974): 218–64, at 12
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 9/11/2023