ISic000095: Statue base for Gnaeus Pollienus
- ID
- ISic000095
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- statue base
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A tall base of pink veined breccia, finished on all four sides with moulding top and bottom. The upper surface has a circular hole to the rear left (approx. 6cm diameter) and a foot hole (approx 25 x 5 cm) front right. There is light damage to the lower moulding on the rear corners and to the upper moulding on all sides. The base is D 85 cm x W 84 cm; the top is D 71.7 cm x W 64 cm (damaged). The pillar (H 84.5 cm) narrows slightly towards the top (D 51.5 cm to 48.2 cm; W 52 cm to 49 cm). Total height is 125.5 cm.
- Object type
- statue base
- Material
- breccia (di San Marco)
- Condition
- complete
- Dimensions
- height: 125.5 cm, width: 84 cm, depth: 85 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of Latin letters, centred on the upper part of the front face of the base.
- Text condition
- complete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 48-58mm
- Line 2: 42-48mm
- Line 3: 40-44mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 30-35mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 32mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found at the end of October 1879 on the 'piano della chiesa maggiore e vicino al diruto castello'
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 123
- Autopsy
- Prag, 2018-07-10
- Map
Date
Augustan; normally assumed to honour an original member of the colony, founded in 21 BCE by Augustus (21 BC – AD 14)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
This individual is also honoured in ISic000096, found in Termini in 1876. It is suggested also (e.g. Wilson 1990: 42 n.87) that this man is the son of the Pollienus honoured at Haluntium, possibly in the civil war period (ISic001190). A further inscription (ISic000098) records another (anonymous) individual from the same Legio XII Fulminata. The multiple references to this legion encourage the hypothesis that it was veterans of this legion which were settled in the colonial foundation of Augustus in 21 BC (so, e.g., Manganaro 1988: 42). The distinctive breccia from the area of San Marco d'Alunzio suggests a deliberate choice of prestigious material.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285209
- EDR: 127010
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100050
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 287
- 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 10.7349
- H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 3 vols (Berlin: Weidmann, 1892), at 5093
- R.J.A. Wilson, ‘Towns of Sicily during the Roman Empire’, Aufstieg Und Niedergang Der Romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 90–206, at 97
- 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.57 fig.31
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 13
- Discussion
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 6/10/2025