ISic000004: Inscription recording construction of a sphaeristrium by a father and son
- ID
- ISic000004
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text checked against photograph; illegible line 1 requires fresh autopsy.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Substantial marble slab, damaged on all sides, and broken in three reconnected fragments, and with the upper edge and upper front face chiselled (for re-use?) such that traces of large letters can be seen in several places but no more.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 26 cm, width: 61.5 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Text fills the face, with traces of a larger line above; surviving line 1 is larger than the lines below.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 2: 45mm
- Line 3-5: 35mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Centuripae
- Provenance found
- Found in contrada Gelofia in 1877, and now on display in the Palermo archaeological museum
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3504
- Autopsy
- none
- Map
Date
100—150 CE (AD 100 – AD 150)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491500
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900323
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità», Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità, 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 226
- 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 10.7004
- H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 3 vols (Berlin: Weidmann, 1892), at 5663
- Guido Libertini, Centuripe (Catania, 1926), at 75-76
- Guido Libertini, «Iscrizioni Centuripine», Siculorum Gymnasium 2 (1949): 91–97, at 93-94
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 4
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 44 n.218, tav.XIV.22
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 152 fig.130
- G. Biondi, «Scavi nella proprietà Fiorenza in località Fontanelle (ex feudo Gelofia) e ceramiche di produzione locale.», in Centuripe. Indagini archeologiche e prospettive di ricerca, a c. di G. Biondi (Enna: Consiglio Nazionale delle Ricerche, 2010), 11–34, at 13 fig.3
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 5/21/2025