ISic000019: Fragment of an inscription referencing one of the emperors styled Marcus Aurelius
- ID
- ISic000019
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of ILPalermo (Bivona) checked against the photograph ;
- 1: Bivona: Au..; Mommsen: AVÌ‚R
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A fragment of compact limestone, seemingly cut down or damaged on all sides.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 22 cm, width: 48 cm, depth: 6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 105mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Panhormus
- Provenance found
- First recorded in Torremuzza 1762, said to be in the courtyard of the Palazzo Senatorio.
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3519
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
The reference could be to one of several emperors from Marcus Aurelius (161 CE) onwards, although a third century date is more likely given the form of the letters. (AD 161 – AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering, prosopography
Text type
commentary
As Bivona notes, Mommsen in CIL chose to unify this fragment with one recorded by Gualtherus and Fazello (on a piece of an architrave, re-used as a church step, and which read: IMP. M. AVRELIO . ANTONINO . AVG...). However. Torremuzza described that piece separately from this one, which he placed in the courtyard of the Palazzo Senatorio, and there seems no obvious reason to conflate them.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491779
- EDR: 137670
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22000863
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Le antiche iscrizioni di Palermo (Palermo, 1762), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1762, at 13 no.xxiv
- 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 10.7277
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 19
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/3/2025