ISic000048: Dedication to Isis and Serapis by Caius Ennius Secundus
- ID
- ISic000048
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Mommsen;
- 3: expansion first proposed by Schoene
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Small quadrangular base in marble (or the local Taormina breccia?), with a quadrangular depression in the centre with holes at the four corners.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 10.5 cm, width: 23.5 cm, depth: 27 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Latin text over three lines, intended to be centred on the stone, but the right margin is poorly controlled and the text runs up against the edge.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 18mm
- Line 2: 15mm
- Line 3: 15mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Acquired in 1868 from D. Gaetano Zucchero of Taormina, having been found in the area of the Chiesa di San Pancrazio, together with a statue of a priestess of Isis
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3549
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
1st — 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491487
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900308
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- R. Schoene, «Scavi di Taormina», Bullettino dell’Instituto di corrispondenza archeologica, 1867, 172–73, https://archive.org/details/bullettinodellin1867inst, at 172-173
- 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 10.6989
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Ricerche di epigrafia siceliota. I. Per la storia del culto delle divinita orientali in Sicilia», Siculorum Gymnasium 14 (1961): 175–98, at 177 with n.11
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 49
- Francesco Muscolino, «San Pancrazio e il Falcone. culti antichi e recenti da Taormina a Naxos. I.», in Dinamiche culturali ed etniche nella Sicilia orientale dall’età classica all’epoca ellenistica, Aristonothos, Quaderni 4 (Trento: Tangram Edizioni Scientifiche, 2014), 233–35.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 7/31/2024