ISic000070: Fragmentary Imperial honorific

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ID
ISic000070
Language
Latin
Status
draft
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of IMusPalermo

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, intact on the right margin, broken on the other three sides.
Object type
plaque
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 33 cm, width: 30 cm, depth: 4 cm

Material

Description
marble
Type > subtype
stone.unspecified > unverified

Inscription

Layout
The ends of three lines of Latin letters, of roughly equal height, irregular right margin.
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Thinly incised regular letters of moderately narrow module, with straight-bar serifs; a fully curved G.

Letter heights
Line 1-2: 75mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Tyndaris
Provenance found
Found at Tindari

Current location

Place
Palermo, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Antonino Salinas
3571a
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

The formula is that of the third and fourth centuries CE (AD 201 - AD 400)
Evidence
lettering, textual-context

Text type

honorific

commentary

Published together with a second fragment by Mommsen, and the two fragments continue to be published together under a single number by both Bivona and Fasolo, notwithstanding the fact that Bivona correctly highlighted that the two fragments clearly belong to separate inscriptions.

Bibliography

Digital editions
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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
5/25/2026