ISic000104: I.Sicily inscription 000104
- ID
- ISic000104
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building; honorific
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: The vertical stroke of a further letter is preserved on the break on the right hand edge, but given the lack of evidence from serifs, the possibilities are multiple; the last interpunct and this trace of a further letter both omitted by previous editors.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Two large, joining fragments of a marble architrave (or similar). Thick slabs of a rectangular form, of a fine white marble with occasional blue veins. The lower edge is square in profile, the face is very lightly concave, while the top edge is rounded with a moulding on the rear side (relative to the inscribed face) of the upper edge. The rear face is straight (i.e. not convex), and only very roughly finished, indicating that additional blocks were set against it. Both fragments are broken at left and right, intact on the other sides.The implication seems to be that the inscribed face was horizontal and faced upwards, with the moulded edge facing outwards, and a structure underneath supporting the blocks. Fragment A (left) is 67.7 cm wide, fragment B 68.1 cm wide.
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 49 cm, width: 135.8 cm, depth: 9.2-9.4 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of monumental letters set neatly in the vertical middle of the available field.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 114-123mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found in the context of excavation of a structure in the area between the castle and the duomo (precise description of the location varies, CIL says 'in piazza del Duomo', Salinas in NSA refers to excavations in the vicinity of the castle rock).
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 420
- Autopsy
- Prag 2022-07-13, in the courtyard of the Museo Civico.
- Map
Date
Augustan or Julio-Claudian (21 BC – AD 50)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The absence of a cognomen should be noted. The slight traces of curvature along the edges suggests a circular structure?
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285236
- EDR: 110876
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100057
- 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 72
- 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 10.7356
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 22
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/30/2025