ISic000105: Fragment of a Latin public inscription
- ID
- ISic000105
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy ;
- 1: The second letter shows no trace of a middle horizontal for 'E', while the lower stroke is both lighter and more curved than might be expected for E, suggesting possibly D (or L)?
- 3: The final letter could be P or R
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Large fragment of a substantial white marble block. The front face is partially preserved, as is a very small smoothly finished area of the reverse. The fragment is irregularly broken on all four sides. On the lower rear left there is an area of curved surface, running from the intact part of the rear face towards the front, which appears to be original. If this is so, then it is likely that only a small amount of stone is missing from the front left face (c.10cm?). Modern red paint has been applied around the sides of the stone. Dimensions are those of the preserved face.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 14.5 cm, width: 26 cm, depth: 23.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Parts of three lines of Latin letters, first line larger than the other two.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: More than 57mm
- Line 2: 46-48mm
- Line 3: more than 23mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 15mm
- Interlineation line 2 to 3: 14mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found 'fra le macerie di quell'antico castello'
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 87
- Autopsy
- Prag 2023-07-06 in the storeroom of the Museo Civico
- Map
Date
V.fine lettering including open 'P' (?) (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bivona could not find the text, but it has been rediscovered in the museum stores.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 284840
- EDR: 110878
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900636
- 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 54 = 202
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 23
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/3/2025