ISic000101: Inscription recording construction of a portico by a duumvir

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
ISic000101
Language
Latin
Text type
building
Object type
block
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy ;
  • 3: Theoretically also possible: de · s(ua) [· p(ecunia) · f(ecit)]

Physical description

Support

Description
A large rectangula block of a coarse crystalline grey stone with a brown patina to the surface. Intact top, left and probably upper right and behind. May be intact lower left, and the lower front edge is worn, at the least. Lower right corner lost. Sides and top roughly finished, front face smooth.
Object type
block
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 23.3 cm, width: 56.8 cm, depth: 17.3 cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of large latin letters, centred, filling stone on all three lines. First line is larger.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 58-61mm
Line 2: 38-40mm
Line 3: 37-45mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: 20mm
Interlineation line 2 to 3: 17-25mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
First recorded walled into the 'torre di S. Giacomo'

Current location

Place
Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository
Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 57
Autopsy
Prag 2018-07-10
Map

Date

early imperial, Augustan or Julio-Claudian. (21 BC – AD 54)
Evidence
No data

Text type

building

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/3/2025