ISic004273: Epitaph of Cassianus erected by his son Cassius

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: ISic004273
Language: Latin
Text type: No data
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text according to ILipara 763

Physical description

Support

Description: Rectangular plaque of local volcanic stone, with a framed epigraphic field (37-39 high, 27 cm wide) on the upper part of the front face, and two clamp holes in the upper edge for fixing or mounting in a larger structure.
Object type: plaque
Material: volcanic
Condition: complete
Dimensions: height: 61 cm, width: 32 cm, depth: 12 cm

Inscription

Layout: The text is laid out in a somewhat irregular form over four lines.
Text condition: deteriorated
Letter heights: Line 1 to 4: 36-56mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 4: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Lipara
Provenance found: Found in 1974 in trench XXXV (property of the bishop's palace), in reuse in the cover of sarcophagus 1687 (dated to the end of the C1 or C2 CE).

Current location

Place: Lipari, Italy
Repository: Museo Archeologico Regionale Eoliano "Luigi Bernab� Brea" , 11854
Autopsy: None
Map

Date

First century CE (AD 1 – AD 100)

Evidence: archaeological-context

Text type

No data

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

L. Bernabò Brea, M. Cavalier, e L. Campagna, Meligunìs Lipára. XII. Le iscrizioni lapidarie greche e latine delle isole eolie (Palermo: Mario Grispo Editore, 2003), at 763

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

6/17/2022