ISic000028: I.Sicily inscription 000028

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2017-07-21
ID
ISic000028
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
draft
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Edition

Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970) Zotero
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of ILMusPalermo

Physical description

Support

Description
A large plaque of grey marble, broken in half vertically and rejoined; damaged on the left and below.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Object condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 73 cm, width: 52 cm, depth: 3.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
The text maintains a justified left margin, but uneven right margin, with words regularly broken across the line-end, and no attempt to make the end of the text symmetrical or to match the content to the line-length / layout, as opposed to simply a consistent filling of the face until the text is complete.
Text condition
complete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Tall, relatively narrow letters, with short horizontal strokes often curving upwards (especially on T).

Letter heights
Line 1: 95mm
Line 2: 75-80mm
Line 3: 70-75mm
Line 4-5: 65mm
Line 6: 60mm
Line 7: 55mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2 : mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Panhormus
Provenance found
Among the inscriptions originally displayed in the Palazzo delle Aquile; currently on display in the Museum courtyard.

Current location

Place
Palermo, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3528
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

203 CE (AD 203 - AD 204)
Evidence
office

Text type

honorific

commentary

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/1/2025