ISic000087: Fragment of a dedication to Augustus

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ID
ISic000087
Language
Latin
Text type
dedication
Object type
unknown
Status
edited
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Gualtherus;
  • 1: Mommsen, Bivona: s[acrum]; but Gualtherus prints the A as capital but italicised, suggesting some trace was visible.

Physical description

Support

Description
No details of the fragment are preserved.
Object type
unknown
Object condition
No data
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description
stone

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Gualtherus comments that the text is in 'literis palmaribus', i.e. c.25 cm high.

Letter heights
Line 1: 250mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Recorded by Gualtherus as 'in aede Matthaei Bertholi, medici', but not seen since.

Current location

Lost.

Date

Augustan (?) (27 BC - AD 14)
Evidence
textual-context

Text type

dedication

commentary

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/25/2024