ISic001888: Fragment of a Latin epitaph

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2024-12-03
ID
ISic001888
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary
Object type
plaque
Status
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Jonathan Prag
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from photograph;
  • 2: Fasolo (after Scifani): v(ixit) XXXI

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, preserving the upper right corner, broken to left and below.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of two lines of Latin letters, with a vacat above, and 1-2 letter vacat margin on the right; right margin not perfectly justified.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Tyndaris
Provenance found
Found during excavations of an area of the necropolis in contrada Scrozzo by Salinas / Scifani, recorded in journal of 10-03-1896
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Current location

Place
Palermo, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 55196
Autopsy
observed on display, not autopsied
Map

Date

first or second century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

funerary

commentary

The inscription was published by Fasolo on the basis of a crude apograph in the excavation journal by G. Scifani, the limited value of which is clear from comparison with the photograph. The letters 'ege' presumably come from the middle of the name of the deceased, since they are unlikely to be the beginning and cannot be the end of a personal name. Ann(is) is very slightly more common than An(nis) in Sicilian funerary inscriptions, but either could stand here. The plaque woudl seem to have been reasonably broad, and there i slikely to have been at least one more line, either recording additional information about age at death, or epithets, or the commemorator(s). Mention is made by Orsi of excavations in January of the same year in the necropolis by Salinas in NSA 1896, pp. 116-117, but without reference to any inscriptions.

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Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
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Last revision
5/2/2025