ISic000007: Construction of fortification works under Sextus Pompeius by L. Plinius Rufus
- ID
- ISic000007
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text as per Degrassi et al., but with interpuncts and ligatures annotated from autopsy/photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 42 cm, width: 134 cm, depth: 15 cm
Inscription
- Layout
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- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Found during construction work for the Baglio Anselmi
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Italy
- Repository
- Museo archeologico regionale Lilibeo Marsala - Baglio Anselmi
- Autopsy
- On display.
- Map
Date
39—36 BCE (39 BC – 36 BC)- Evidence
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Text type
commentary
Cf. Appian, BC 5.98. L. Plinius Rufus subsequently defected to Octavian and seized Messana. The inscription provides important evidence for Sextus Pompeius' nomenclature and offices after 39 BC.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175824
- EDR: 071633
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 14700098
- 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 388-391 ph
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1895.0023
- H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 3 vols (Berlin: Weidmann, 1892), at 8891
- T. Mommsen, ‘Inschriften von Curubis und Lilybaeon’, Hermes 30 (1895): 456–62, at 460-462
- A. Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1965), at 426
- A. Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1965), at no.178
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 7
- C.A. Di Stefano, Lilibeo. Testimonianze archeologiche dal IV sec a.C. al V sec. d.C. (Palermo, 1984), at 35
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
- Robert Crellin
- Last revision
- 5/1/2025