ISic001676: Fragment of a Latin funerary inscription
- ID
- ISic001676
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- line.1: the first letter could possibly be D; the fourth letter could possibly be C
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of the lower left corner of a thick tablet of off-white marble, intact left and below, broken right and above. The rear is smooth, with traces of mortar. Light chipping/damage to the left edge.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 21.2 cm,聽width: 16.9-17.4 cm,聽depth: 3.6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin letters, with an uneven left margin, and of varying heights, the final line much smaller and with space mid-line.
- Text condition
- incomplete #text_condition, legible
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Neat v-cut letters of rather square/blockish style, with simple straight serifs to ends of the strokes. T in line 2 is enlarged (50mm) and as is final I in line 4. Interpuncts of triangular form. C is large and asymmetrical; E has equal length horizontals.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: incompletemm
- Line 2: 41-42mm
- Line 3: 32-33mm
- Line 4: 18-20mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 21mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 23mm
- Interlineation line 3 to 4: 12-17mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in the vicinity of the , entered into the museum on 17.12.1888
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 6819
- Autopsy
- Autopsy, Prag, 2015-07-01, magazzino B, cassa 26
- Map
Date
later 1st or 2nd century CE (AD 51 - AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
The first line appears to be smaller and more compressed than lines 2-3, which, together with the content, strongly suggests that at least one line is missing above; the layout of line 4, with an extended vacat after 'sibi' likewise suggests that only perhaps a third of the original width is preserved (restoring 'et suis' or similar). If the surviving traces of line 1 do indeed read 'BVRO', it is difficult to interpret as anything other than a rare cognomen (cf. CIL 10.640 reported in Salerno). The piece does not seem to have been recorded by Orsi in his taccuini, although observed and published by him in his first publication of material from Syracuse in 1889.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: -
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 34700073
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- W. Henzen and K. F. W. Zangemeister, Ephemeris Epigraphica. Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementum, Edita Iussu Instituti Archaeologici Romani, 9 vols (Berlin: G. Reimerum, 1872), at VIII 690
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell鈥檃rte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d鈥橧talia, 芦Notizie degli scavi di antichit脿禄, Notizie degli Scavi di Antichit脿, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 385
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 5/8/2021