ISic000110: I.Sicily inscription 000110

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; image scanned from ILTermini
ID
ISic000110
Language
Latin
Text type
building
Object type
block
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

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Physical description

Support

Description
Large plaque of limestone, cut off to left and right.
Object type
block
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 32 cm, width: 63 cm, depth: 33 cm

Inscription

Layout
Two lines of Latin letters with guide lines not always closely observed, the first line much larger than the second, filling the surviving face.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: 130-140mm
Line 2: 70mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Thermae Himeraeae
Provenance found
Found during work for the paving of Piazza di S. Andrea, in 1888.
Map

Current location

Last seen by Bivona in the museum in the early 1990s, but could not be located in the museum in 2022-2023.

Date

second or third century? (AD 101 – AD 300)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

building

commentary

As Bivona observes, the quality and size of the inscription, together with the presence of the word 'aedific[--]' makes it relatively certain that this text refers to/ comes from a pblic building or records a work of public construction.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
7/3/2025