ISic000090: Dedication to the deified Commodus
- ID
- ISic000090
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- Bivona discerns traces of a number of letters from a previously erased text, but these could not be confirmed on autopsy.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large statue base of compact grey limestone. Intact except for minor chipping to the edges and damage to the lower front moulding. Finished, with plain mouldings top and bottom to the front face only. The sides are roughly chiselled flat, while the rear is flat but rough and uneven. The upper surface is damaged towards the rear, but has two footholes, the right one front facing (12x32cm), the left one towards the rear and angled left, but incomplete, min. 11 x 18cm.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 156 cm, width: 60 cm, depth: 63 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The inscription is set out as five lines of large monumental Latin letters centred on the upper portion of the epigraphic field on the front face below the moulding (the field is 60W x 85 H). Lines 1 and 4 are larger.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 86-91mm
- Line 2: 50-57mm
- Line 3: 52-54mm
- Line 4: 82-89mm
- Line 5: 71-72mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Attributed by Gualtherus to the 'House of Sthenius', located in the area of the duomo
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 122
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-08, in the courtyard of the Museo Civico
- Map
Date
Terminus post quem of 195 CE, the deification of Commodus, and likely belongs to the reign of Septimius Severus (AD 195 – AD 211)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284838
- EDR: 109665
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100043
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 42 no.241
- 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 10.7342
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 76
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 298
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 6
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/10/2025