ISic000106: Fragmentary text of a publicly financed initiative
- ID
- ISic000106
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based on autopsy, and comparison to Mommsen (CIL) ;
- 1: Mommsen (CIL) apparently saw a more complete version of the inscription, and records SIRE S in line 1
- 3: PU is superimposed
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a yellow/brown limestone plaque. Broken on all sides and heavily abraded on surface. The second line is abraded and partially destroyed by later reuse: an oval slot/door jamb or similar was carved into stone. The back is flat, but for a teardrop shaped recess in centre of stone.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 18 (at highest) cm, width: 24 (at widest) cm, depth: 5.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Three lines of fragmentary Latin text. Triangular interpunct in line 2.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: tallest letter 36 (but no letter complete)mm
- Line 2: tallest letter 56 (but all other letters incomplete)mm
- Line 3: 46-51 (on surviving letters)mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- The place, date, and circumstances of the discovery are unknown, but the fragment is assumed to come from Termini Imerese
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 7, shelf 3.
- Map
Date
Imperial (AD 1 – AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The inscription appears to allude, if we accept the restoration [impen]sa publica, to some initiative financed with public funds.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285120
- EDR: 110879
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100058
- 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 10.7357
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 24
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 7/24/2025