ISic003150: Epitaph of Quintus Pompeius Sosius Clementianus
- ID
- ISic003150
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- funerary
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Prag from photograph;
- 4: The F of infanti has a substantial foot, giving the appearance of an E (visual confusion between these letters not uncommon in C2-C3 inscriptions); the A of infanti lacks a cross-bar.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A white marble plaque, intact on all sides. Roughly finished on the rear, with the edges roughly cut back for insertion into a wall or other setting. The letters appear to have been crudely repainted since antiquity
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 23 cm, width: 28.5 cm, depth: 3.3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is roughly centred on the stone.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
V-cut letters of slightly irregular module and height, with pronounced serifs. Interpuncts are above the line and not clearly distinguishable from apices
- Letter heights
- Line 1-7: 17-21mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- First observed, in the Biscari collection, by Mommsen. Mommsen considered it to be from Rome, but Korhonen rightly argues that the well attested presence of the Pompeii Sosii in Centuripe and Catania, and the physical form of the epitaph make a Catania - or Centuripe - provenance far more likely. Now in the Museo Civico (sala VII.229, mag. sup.)
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 585
- Autopsy
- Photographed but not transcribed, Prag 2016-10-14
- Map
Date
Second half of 2nd century CE or early 3rd century CE (Korhonen) (AD 151 - AD 250)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
Given that Biscari undertook excavations at Centuripe, and that the family of the Pompeii Sosii has part of its origin in Centuripe, it is at least as possible that the stone comes originally from Centuripe as from Catania. It seems most likely that Clementianus is the son of a freedman of the family.
Korhonen's suggestion that the apices/interpuncts in line 6 serve to indicate abbreviations cannot stand given that the sign appears after the numeral VII also, so they serve simply to separate all elements on the line, as is typical.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285099
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 13800758
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 06.24510
- CIL Mommsen (1883) at 1088*.282
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 13
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/27/2025