ISic000086: Dedication to Victoria
- ID
- ISic000086
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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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
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.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285019
- EDR: 109642
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100039
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Baldassare Romano, «Antiche iscrizioni inedite appartenenti alla città di Termini Imerese», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 28 (1829): 289–308, at 306 no.21
- 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 10.7338
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 2
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/15/2024