ISic000068: I.Sicily inscription 000068

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 2022-05-23
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 2022-05-23
ID
ISic000068
Language
Latin
Status
draft
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of IMusPalermo

Physical description

Support

Description
Large marble plaque, broken into multiple pieces and restored; part of left margin lost.
Object type
plaque
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 65 cm, width: 54 cm, depth: 3 cm

Material

Description
Fine to medium-grained, veined and banded, white, calcitic, smelly marble, likely Parian-1, Parian-2, Proconnesian. Optical microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric. Digital microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric (identification based on digital microscopy, XRD, optical microscopy, stable isotopes analysis)
Type > subtype
stone.marble > Parian-1,Parian-2,Proconnesian

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Tyndaris
Provenance found
From Tindari

Current location

Place
Palermo, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
3569
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

Honours Iulia Mamea, mother of Severus Alexander (AD 222 - AD 235)
Evidence
office

Text type

honorific

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions
Printed editions

Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021