ISic000094: Honorific for Marcus Cestius, primus pilus and duumvir
- ID
- ISic000094
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Gualtherus;
- 3: Gualtherus omits interpunct between TRIB and MIL (inserted by Mommsen).
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Likely to be either a statue base or a plaque from a base, but no details are recorded.
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- unknown
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Gualtherus presents the text over four lines, the name filling line 1.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- 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) in the 'praetorium', i.e. town hall of Termini Imerese; but not seen subsequently.
Current location
Lost.
Date
Most likely to be one of the first generation of colonial settlers, and so probably Augustan in date, and (as Wilson 1990, p.369 n.58) unlikely to be later than Claudius. (21 BC – AD 41)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285286
- EDR: 127507
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100049
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliae obiacentium insular et Bruttiorum antiquae tabulae cum animadversionibus Georgii Gualtheri (Panormi, 1624), at no. 96
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at 43 no.254
- 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.9 no.6
- 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.9 no.7
- 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 10.7348
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 42
- 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 38-39 n.58
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 12
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
- 2/24/2025