ISic000085: Dedication to Sol Invictus
- ID
- ISic000085
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- statue base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of ILTermini. Lines 4-6 which were read almost entirely by Mommsen. Bivona (1994, 113) asserts that several letters could still 'be glimpsed with extreme difficulty' ('si intravedono con estrema difficolta'), but have now completely disappeared. ;
- 4: Mommsen: 'tori im[p]'
- 5: Mommsen: 'Anton[ini]'
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large rectangular white limestone plinth. Top cornice is heavily broken on all sides, but with inset for statue on top. Front face has a horizontal fracture near middle, abrasions to sides and broken at bottom.
- Object type
- statue base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- damaged
- Dimensions
- height: 84 (roughly including broken top), 70 (from base to bottom of cornice) cm, width: 36.5 (not including irregular cornice at top) cm, depth: 28 (not including irregular cornice at top) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin text, contained within double border. Text centred within border, with vacat of significant size below, with evidence of erasure of at least 3 lines of text.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 54-65mm
- Line 2: 56-64mm
- Line 3: 59-69mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the piece is assumed to come from Termini Imerese
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 110
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-08. On display in the courtyard portico of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Map
Date
Reign of Elagabalus, 218—222 CE (AD 218 – AD 222)- Evidence
- office
Text type
commentary
Sol Invictus is here described as the defender of Elagabalus, as Augustus (conservatori Augusti). This legend also appears on contemporary coins (e.g. RIC 4.2 n.63).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285208
- EDR: 127000
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100038
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 10.7337
- G. Sfameni Gasparro, I culti orientali in Sicilia (Leiden: Brill, 1973), at 293 no.354
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 1
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/10/2025