ISic000098: Honours for an unknown member of the equestrian order
- ID
- ISic000098
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Four joining fragments of a large tablet of white-veined pink 'breccia di San Marco'. Part of the lower border is preserved, with traces of a raised moulding which has been subsequently chiselled off. All of the top, left and right edges are lost, but the size of line 1 suggests this was the original first line and so not much is missing from the top of the stone, while vacats at the start of lines 4-7 of the text show that the left margin of the text, if not of the stone, is preserved there. The rear of the stone is finished smooth and traces are visible of a raised moulding along the lower edge comparable to that on the front of the stone.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- breccia
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 42.5 (preserved max) cm, width: 57 (preserved max) cm, depth: 3.6-4.1 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Line 1 is considerably larger than the others, while the spacing of line 5 suggests a clear effort to keep the text centered. The final line consists of widely spaced abbreviations.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: c.80 (preserved 41)mm
- Line 2: 44-47mm
- Line 3: 38-42mm
- Line 4: 37-42mm
- Line 5: 28-33mm
- Line 6: 41-42mm
- Line 7: 36mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The three left-hand fragments were found in 1783, the fourth (upper right) at a date prior to 1829 (but Romano 1829 does not appear to have recognised the connection).
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-06
- Map
Date
The post of governor of Cyprus precedes the transfer of the province to the Senate in 22 BCE, but only provides a terminus post quem for the inscription, which in any case must surely belong after the foundation of the colonia in 21 BCE, but not, therefore, by much. (21 BC – 1 BC)- Evidence
- office
Text type
commentary
The restored text is based upon that proposed by H.G. Pflaum, in Les carrières procuratoriennes équestres sous le Haut-Empire romain (1960-61), vol. 1, p. 7, A(8).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285316
- EDR: 127534
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100052
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 331 no.5
- Baldassare Romano, «Antiche iscrizioni inedite appartenenti alla città di Termini Imerese», Giornale di scienze, letteratura ed arti per la Sicilia 28 (1829): 289–308, at 304 no.15, 305 no.19
- 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 10.7351
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 53 n.259, cf 10 n.23, 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 n.55
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 16
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
- 2/14/2024