ISic000258: Fragmentary Plaque of Two Letters

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana

ID: ISic000258
Language: Latin
Text type: unknown
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text of ILTermini and photograph, confirmed with autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description: Large stone limestone fragment plaque. Bottom edge is flat, with bottom cornice. Top border is missing and top of text is abraded. Sides broken. Rear protruding.
Object type: plaque
Material: limestone
Condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 19 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: 13 cm

Inscription

Layout

Fragment of a single line of two Latin letters.

Text condition

No data

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: 85mm

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 piece is assumed to come from Termini Imerese

Current location

Place: Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository: Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 10
Autopsy: Antoniou, 2022-07-13. In Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 1, shelf 4
Map

Date

Imperial - two letters, v.precisely cut (?) (AD 1 – AD 300)

Evidence: No data

Text type

unknown

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

Printed editions

Livia Bivona, Iscrizioni latine lapidarie del museo civico di Termini Imerese, vol. 9/8, Kokalos Supplementi / Sikelika serie storica (Palermo / Rome, 1994), at 184

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

9/6/2023