ISic001170: Funerary inscription for Herais

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
ISic001170
Language
Ancient Greek
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Long rectangular crystalline marble plaque. Ends squared, but clearly missing section on left of stone (perhaps due to a later reuse of the block), and roughness of right side perhaps indicates a broken right side. Rear uneven.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 19.5 cm, width: 38 cm, depth: 22.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Two columns of Greek funerary texts. Right column intact, but left column is almost completely missing. Perhaps a missing epitaph on the right as well. 4 lines of Greek text in each column, text of both columns is roughly in line. The right column has an unusual stepped indentation of the left margin, with each line starting c.1 character further to the right than the last.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 27-28mm
Line 2: 27-29mm
Line 3: 23-28mm
Line 4: 26-28mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found in Termini Imerese, in the square of S. Antonino.

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 16
Autopsy
Antoniou, 2023-07-04. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 16, shelf 9.
Map

Date

1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)
Evidence
No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

Given the presence of at least two epitaphs, it is likely that this plaque belonged to a family tomb. Herylos is a unique name, not attested elsewhere. Brugnone (1974) suggests that it could be a form of the documented Heryllos, or is a derivative of the Latin Herylus. Herais is an extremely common name in the empire, attested in Sicily only in the masculine on a lead sheet at Kamarina, ISic030053.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
10/24/2023