ISic000283: Fragments of an honorific inscription

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo L. Campagna 2004-11-17
ID
ISic000283
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text of Manganaro checked against photographs

Physical description

Support

Description
Two fragments of a moderately thick limestone plaque, seemingly broken on all sides, and which appear almost to join. Fragment 1 (left) is c.18cm wide and 21.5 cm high; Fragment 2 (right) is c.13.2 cm wide and c.20.8 cm high
Object type
plaque
Material
limestone
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 21.5 (max preserved) cm, width: 31.2 (max preserved) cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Two lines of large Latin letters
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-2: 75mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Tauromenium
Provenance found
The right-hand fragment (2) found in the theatre in 1841 (so Mommsen in CIL), and seen by Mommsen prior to 1883; fragment 1 first recorded by Manganaro 1989.

Current location

Place
Taormina, Italy
Repository
Antiquarium del Teatro Antico , 57
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

early Imperial (AD 1 – AD 100)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

honorific

commentary

"Aug" in line 1, preceding "duumvir" is most likely to be "flamini Augusti", which often precedes the magistracies in a civic cursus.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/2/2024