ISic003434: Epitaph for Cassia Galene

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ID: ISic003434
Language: Latin
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque
Status: draft
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Edition

Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970) Zotero

Apparatus criticus

Text of Bivona and Ferrua (but with interpuncts formally recorded)

Physical description

Support

Description: Marble plaque, broken in three joining pieces.
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Object condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 19 cm, width: 24.5 cm, depth: 3.5 cm

Inscription

Layout: Text centred on the upper part of the stone
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: A, M and N all show long extensions of the vertical strokes.
Letter heights: Line 1-6: 10-17mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Panhormus(?)
Provenance found: Original discovery not recorded, and the attribution to Palermo is not certain

Current location

Place: Palermo, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3588
Autopsy: None
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Date

3rd century CE (AD 201 - AD 300)

Evidence: No data

Text type

funerary

commentary

The piece's provenance is uncertain. Ferrua suggested that it should be from Palermo, but it is one of three which he so attributed without much evidence, as one of the three is from Taormina and one from Rome; there appears however to be no documentation regarding the origin of this piece, which Bivona therefore lists among the 'ignota'.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

11/28/2025