ISic000261: I.Sicily inscription 000261

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: ISic000261
Language: Latin
Text type: unknown
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

Text on basis of autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description: Small marble fragment, broken on left and below, intact above and right. Carved semi-circular slot on right. Possible pink pigment in 'S' of line 1, and grainy white inclusion in letters of line 2.
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Condition: No data
Dimensions: height: 13 cm, width: 8 (at widest) cm, depth: 2 cm

Inscription

Layout

Two lines of fragmentary Latin text.

Text condition

No data

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1: 42-44mm

Line 2: 45mm

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 fragment is assumed to come from Termini Imerese

Current location

Place: Termini Imerese, Italy
Repository: Museo Civico Baldassare Romano , 17
Autopsy: Antoniou, 2023-07-05. In the Depositi of Museo Civico Baldassare Romano, room 1, scaffold 7, shelf 1.
Map

Date

B: 'Il tracciato delle lettere non sembra di eta romana, bensi medievale... (Unknown – Unknown)

Evidence: No data

Text type

unknown

commentary

Bivona (1994; 1975-1976) believes the fragment to be more recent than Roman, given the shape of the 'U' and 'R'.

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 187

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

Last revision

12/5/2023