ISic000281: Fragment of an imperial honorific?
- ID
- ISic000281
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon photograph;
- 2: Manganaro: Pio; Mommsen and Schubring implied R; lapis: R or B
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A fragment of a marble plaque, intact above and right, broken below and left (i.e preserving the upper right corner)
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 21.5 cm, width: 18 cm, depth: 3 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- End of two lines of Latin letters, of which the first much larger.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 58mm
- Line 2: 48mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tauromenium
- Provenance found
- Found in the Theatre, 1841
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Taormina, Italy
- Repository
- Antiquarium del Teatro Antico , 56
- Autopsy
- None
- Map
Date
Manganaro proposed restoring as a dedication to Commodus, but the reading is against this; it has the form of an honorific, however, likely imperial (AD 150 – AD 250)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The text has the form of an honorific with the first line given most prominence. An imperial honorific to an Aurelius is perhaps most likely, as suggested by Manganaro, but line 2 contains a name ending in either -bio (e.g. Fabio) or -rio (e.g. Valerio), and cannot be 'Pio' as proposed by Manganaro.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175754
- EDR: 081497
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900312
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- T. Mommsen, Inscriptiones Bruttiorum Lucaniae Campaniae Siciliae Sardiniae Latinae. Pars posterior. Inscriptiones Siciliae et Sardiniae, Corpus Inscriptionum Latinarum, consilio et auctoritate Academiae Litterarum Regiae Borussicae editum, 10.2 (Berlin: G. Reimer, 1883), at 10.6993
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 1989.0339a
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 165 no.23 fig.23
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 8/1/2024