ISic004375: Fragmentary Latin inscription

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: ISic004375
Language: Latin
Status: draft
Text type: funerary
Object type: plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

line.2: CE (?), Chiovaro and Rondinella

Physical description

Support

Description: Upper left corner of a marble plaque
Object type: plaque
Object condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 7 cm, width: 10 cm, depth: 2 cm

Material

Description: marble
Type > subtype: stone.unspecified > unverified

Inscription

Layout: Beginning of two lines of Latin letters preserved
Text condition: No data
Technique: chiselled
Pigment: No data
Lettering: Large, formally v-cut letters with minimal serifs
Letter heights: Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights: Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found: Found during rescue excavations in 2015, in the area immediately to the north of the Cimitero Comunale, in surface layers above Roman period tombs within a late-antique basilica
Map

Current location

Place: Termini Imerese, Sicilia
Repository
Autopsy: None

Date

1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 - AD 200)

Evidence: No data

Text type

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

TM: -
EDR: -
EDH: -
EDCS: -
PHI: -

Printed editions

Monica Chiovaro e Maria Teresa Rondinella, «Nuove scoperte nelle necropoli di Termini Imerese», Notiziario Archeologico della Soprintendenza di Palermo 22 (2017): 1–31, at 27 fig.76

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

1/19/2021