ISic000092: Honours for Caius Maesius
- ID
- ISic000092
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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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 cm, width: 113.5 cm, depth: 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
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285283
- EDR: 127504
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100046
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Tommaso Fazello, F. Thomæ Fazelli... de rebus Siculis decades duæ (Panormi, 1558), at Prioris Decadis, Liber Nonus, p.194
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at no. 81
- 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.239
- 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.5 no.24
- 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.5 no.25
- 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 10.7345
- Giacomo Manganaro, «I senatori di Sicilia e il problema del latifondo», in Atti del Colloquio Internazionale AIEGL, su «epigrafia ed ordine senatorio», Roma 14-20/5/81, Tituli 5 (Roma, 1982), 369–85, at 375
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 79
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 9
- Giuliana Maria Amata, Alcune considerazioni sull’epigrafe onoraria CIL X 7345 dalla colonia di Augusta Himereorum Thermitanorum (Leonforte: Euno Edizioni, 2015), https://books.google.co.uk/books?id=qWQ1MQAACAAJ.
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/3/2025