ISic000256: I.Sicily inscription 000256
- ID
- ISic000256
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of dull grey stone plaque. Right side is the original edge, all other sides broken. Rear is flat, except for the bevelled original edge and modern mortar.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 11.5 (at left), 13 (at right) cm, width: 11.5 cm, depth: 3.1 (without mortar, 3.8 with) cm
Inscription
- Layout
- One line of a very fragmentary monumental Latin inscription. Traces of something which may be letters above the fragmentary like, but unlikely.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Serifs used, deeply and neatly carved, although consistency of the width of carving varies slightly (esp. in the first letter). The two letters here are of different heights. No letter survives in its entirety.
- Letter heights
- Line 1: I at least 97mm, B at least 76mmmm
- 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 inscription is assumed to come from Termini Imerese
Current location
- Place
- Termini Imerese, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 16
- Autopsy
- Antoniou, 2023-07-06. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 13, shelf 3
- Map
Date
Imperial -excellent letters (?) (AD 1 - AD 300)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 285322
- EDR: 127510
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 10900678
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 4/26/2024