ISic000066: Dedication to the Emperor Lucius Aurelius Verus
- ID
- ISic000066
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- draft
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of IMusPalermo
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large marble plaque, broken into multiple fragments, and of which the lower left corner is missing. The fragments have been joined together in a plaster setting with the lacunae filed in.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- fragments, contiguous
- Dimensions
- height: 91.5 cm, width: 80.5 cm, depth: 6 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-11: 65mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tyndaris
- Provenance found
- Found at Tindari by Fagan
Current location
- Place
- Palermo, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas , 3567
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
161 CE (AD 161 - AD 161)- Evidence
- office
Text type
commentary
This inscription together with a second, ISic000065, both erected by Marcus Valerius Vitalis, honours the emperors Lucius Verus and Marcus Aurelius, who shared imperial power from 161 to 169 CE. They also attest to the presence of a curator rei publicae, an imperial official appointed by Rome to oversee local administration. Cities generally enjoyed a high degree of autonomy, and the reasons for this external supervision are unclear, though they may have been linked to financial difficulties.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491855
- EDR: 142426
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100594
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Niccolo Maggiore, «Su di alcune iscrizioni latine ritrovate in Tindari», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 27 (1829): 291–301, at 292 no.1
- 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 7475
- « 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 2007.0682
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del Museo di Palermo, Sikelia 5 (Palermo: Flaccovio, 1970), at 67
- M.-Th. Raepsaet-Charlier, « A propos du récent catalogue d’inscriptions latines du musée de Palerme », Latomus 33 (1974): 124‑27, at 127
- Luca Zambito, «Intervento statale e attività urbanistica: sul ruolo dei curatores reipublicae in due epigrafi da Tindari», Minima Epigraphica et Papyrologica 12 (2007): 103–10.
- M. Fasolo, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari (Rome: MediaGEO, 2013), at 73-74 no.6 fig.36
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/2/2025