ISic000088: Fragmentary imperial dedication
- ID
- ISic000088
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- altar
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Gualtherus and Manganaro;
- 2: Mommsen: imp(eratori) Cae[sari]
- 3: Gualtherus prints I... at the end of line 3 of frag. 1 and IVL. at the start of the second fragment, united by Mommsen and Manganaro; Manganaro: Liv[iae deae]
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two fragments of a stone altar, but no details preserved.
- Object type
- altar
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- fragments
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- It is unclear exactly what the relationship of the two fragments to one another was.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Observed by Gualtherus (1624) inside the town-hall of Termini, broken and one of the two parts already missing. Not seen since.
Current location
Lost.
Date
Post-4 CE, date of Tiberius' adoption (AD 4 – AD 14)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
Gualtherus reports the text as being in two fragments, of which the second was already lost. Neither Mommsen nor Manganaro in their proposed restoration and unification of the fragments really make clear how they get from ARA / IMP.CAE.. / ET . I... and IVL. / MATRI. / IMP. CAE. to the restoration of Livia in line 3, although Mommsen's sketch suggests what is proposed here, namely that I... and IVL. need to be understood as a garbled reading of LIVIAE across the break and the transcription of the lost fragment. As Torremuzza observed, it would theoretically be possible instead to refer this e.g. to Caracalla and Iulia Severa.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285021
- EDR: 109649
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100041
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at no. 95
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at no.252
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl.4, no.5
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl.4, no.5
- 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 10.7340
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 48
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 192 n.128
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 4
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 7/25/2024