ISic000100: Honours for Antia Cleopatra, sacerdos

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic000100
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
base
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description
A large statue base in a coarse soft yellow limestome, with a very porous surface. Intact on the left, damaged and missing the lower front right corner, and to a lesser exten the upper rear right corner. Most of the frontal epigraphic field is preserved (H 73.3 cm, W 57 cm max), but the ends of all lines after line 2 are lost. Moulding top and bottom, which extend around the sides, but not to the rear, which is straight and roughly finished. The top of the basis projects in square section above the moulding, by some 17.5cm. There are two small indentations on the top, but the middle and rear right side of the top are missing. No traces of footholes. The gap at the end of the lines increases steadily from c.8cm in line 4, to 10-12 cm by line 11.
Object type
base
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 136 cm, width: 64 cm, depth: 80.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
11 lines of regular neat wide letters of faily consistent size and spacing, with a regular left margin, almost entirely filling the available field.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 55mm
Line 2-4: 53-54mm
Line 5: 48-52mm
Line 6-8: 50-54mm
Line 9: 48-54mm
Line 10-11: 50-54mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found 1768 in vicinity of the Castle
Map

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 120
Autopsy
Prag 2022-07-08, in the courtyard of the museum.
Map

Date

Bivona dates to 2nd century CE by lettering (AD 101 – AD 200)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

honorific

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/23/2023