ISic000069: I.Sicily inscription 000069

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
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
ISic000069
Language
Latin
Status
draft
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of IMusPalermo following Mommsen

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, broken on all sides.
Object type
plaque
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 37 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 4 cm

Material

Description
Fine to medium-grained, banded, white, calcitic marble, likely Proconnesian. Optical microscopy: heteroblastic to homeoblastic fabric with fine-grained areas. Digital microscopy: indistinguishable fabric (identification based on XRD, optical microscopy, stable isotopes analysis, EPR, LA-ICP-MS)
Type > subtype
stone.marble > Proconnesian
Provenance
Marmara District
Map

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
No data
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering
No data
Letter heights
Line 1-4: 70-72mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Tyndaris
Provenance found
Found at Tindari in 1880.

Current location

Place
Palermo, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
3570
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

Valerian, son of Gallienus, as Caesar (AD 256 - AD 258)
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