ISic000086: Dedication to Victoria

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic000086
Language
Latin
Text type
dedication
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy;
  • 1: Romano: ::TORIAI;;
  • 2: Romano: SAC::

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of red veined marble plaque, broken on all sides. Rear has modern plaster still attached, and traces of modern rust.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 25.5 at greatest extent cm, width: 25.5 cm, depth: 18 (excluding modern plaster on rear) cm

Inscription

Layout
Two lines of fragmentary Latin text. Vacat at top suggests there is not a missing first line.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 58-60mm
Line 2: 58mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found at a date between 1784 and 1829 in Termini, and moved to the civic collection by 1829 (Romano).

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 41
Autopsy
Antoniou, 2022-07-13. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 2, shelf 4.
Map

Date

Bivona (1994) suggests an early imperial date based on the appearance of the letters (AD 1 – AD 200)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

dedication

commentary

The inscription was seemingly in a better condition for Mommsen, who seems to have seen more of the 'E' at the end of line 1, and suggests that the whole of the 'C' was visible in line 2, with a vacat afterwards, although Romano 1829 shows a lacuna after the C.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
4/15/2024