ISic000108: Dedication for a local patron by the decurions
- ID
- ISic000108
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy, read against Bivona (1994);
- 1: Bivona (1994) asserts an unclear 'm' at the end of the visible line 1, but 'a' is equally possible.
- 6: Bivona (1994) reads 'ga' at the beginning of the visible line 6, but the 'g' is heavily obscured; potentially an 's' instead.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Once rectangular block of dark-grey limestone. Most sides significantly abraded, although traces of original edges on left and base. Traces of lower cornice, with the possibility of upper cornice as well. Rear is similarly abraded and uneven.
- Object type
- base
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 116 cm, width: 65 cm, depth: 64 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Seven lines of text in Latin, with vacat at bottom before cornice. One or two lines missing from top, obscured by abrasions.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 53-54mm
- Line 2: 51-56mm
- Line 3: 53-54mm
- Line 4: 47-48mm
- Line 5: 39-45mm
- Line 6: 41-42mm
- Line 7: 48-53mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Thermae Himeraeae
- Provenance found
- Found during the excavations carried out on 4 and 5 August 1982 by O. Belvedere of the University of Palermo. Transported to the Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2022-07-08. On display in the courtyard, near the fountain, of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano
- Map
Date
Bivona: 'L'iscrizione potrebbe porsi al II sec.d.C.' (AD 100 – AD 200)- Evidence
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Text type
commentary
As stressed by Bivona (1994, 140-141) the top line(s) likely mentioned the recipient of the dedication. Although Bivona (1994) makes extensive restorations, they fit the dimensions of the stone and make sense of the immensely fragmentary text.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285029
- EDR: 110885
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900637
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1994.0773
- Oscar Belvedere, «Termini Imerese. Saggi di scavo in Piazza Vittorio Emanuele», Sicilia Archeologica 48 (1982): 37–44, at 37
- Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 26
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 8/30/2023