ISic000092: Honours for Caius Maesius

Photo J. Prag, courtesy Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
ID
ISic000092
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
Large limestone slab, seemingly intact above and to the sides, but missing the lower left and right corners. Rough behind, thicker in the centre, reduced on all edges behind, as if for insertion into a wall or monument. Edges are picked rather than finished, but the face is smooth.
Object type
plaque
Material
limestone
Condition
damaged
Dimensions
height: 69.7 cmwidth: 113.5 cmdepth: 12-19 cm

Inscription

Layout
Six lines of large Latin letters which reduce in height, with a vacat below.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 83-92mm
Line 2: 69-90mm
Line 3: 44-52mm
Line 4: 41-55mm
Line 5: 37-55mm
Line 6: 40-60mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: 25-42mm
Interlineation line 2 to 3: 30-35mm
Interlineation line 3 to 4: 30-45mm
Interlineation line 4 to 5: 25-38mm
Interlineation line 5 to 6: 22-42mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded, but already recorded by Gualtherus 1624 in the principal church of Termini Imerese, 'in ara plana'.

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 116
Autopsy
2018-07-10 (Prag)
Map

Date

Usually thought either to refer to C.Maesius Titianus, cos. 245 CE, or a likely relative of similar period. (AD 240 – AD 270)
Evidence
prosopography

Text type

honorific

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/3/2025