ISic000101: Inscription recording construction of a portico by a duumvir
- 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
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285308
- EDR: 127536
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100054
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 10.7353
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 44
- 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 359 n.70
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 19
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/3/2025