ISic000259: Fragmentary inscription of Five 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: ISic000259
Language: Latin
Text type: unknown
Object type
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text of ILTermini with slight changes based on the photograph

Physical description

Support

Description: Thin rectangular fragmentary block of limestone. Top and bottom edges are straight and original, breaks on left and right edges. Large chip on left obscures most of the first extant letter. Modern rust on rear. Rear is mostly flat, except for large broken section along long edge.
Object type: No data
Material: limestone
Condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 12 cm, width: 21 cm, depth: 12.5 cm

Inscription

Layout

Five letters of fragmentary Latin text, in one line.

Text condition

No data

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: 57-62mm

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 , 9
Autopsy: Antoniou, 2022-07-13. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 1, shelf 4.
Map

Date

Imperial - good letters (?) (AD 1 – AD 300)

Evidence: No data

Text type

unknown

commentary

Although Bivona (1994) claims that the letters are engraved between guide lines, none can be seen in autospy of stone in 2022.

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 185

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

9/11/2023