ISic000091: I.Sicily inscription 000091

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
ISic000091
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
base
Status
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Apparatus criticus

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Physical description

Support

Description
Large white marble statue base. Mostly intact in the lower part and on the right, but damaged top and to the upper left. Most of the front face is perserved, but parts of the surface eroded. A moulding around the base, on the front, right and left sides, but not to the rear. The rear, right and left sides are roughly finished. The front face has a framed epigraphic field filling the whole face. The top, above the frame, is entirely lost. The central section above the moulding is 54.8 cm W x 40 D, and the epigraphic field 75.3 H x 48 W.
Object type
base
Material
limestone
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 101 cmwidth: 59 cmdepth: 43 cm

Inscription

Layout
18 lines of Latin text of approximately equal height, with two large hederae in the vacat at the foot of the text.
Text condition
incomplete
Letter heights
Line 1-18: 25-30mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Seen by Mommsen in the civic museum, and Mommsen references B. Romano, antichita trovate in Sicilia (1854), p.21 [non vidi]

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 108
Autopsy
Prag 2022-07-08, in the museum courtyard (incomplete transcription)
Map

Date

10th December 196—9th December 197, the fifth year of Septimius Severus' tribunican power. (AD 196 – AD 197)
Evidence
office

Text type

honorific

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
2/9/2024