ISic000283: Fragments of an honorific inscription
- ID
- ISic000283
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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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
commentary
"Aug" in line 1, preceding "duumvir" is most likely to be "flamini Augusti", which often precedes the magistracies in a civic cursus.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175757
- EDR: 081500
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900314
- 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 10.6995
- « 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 1989.0339d
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 166 no.26 fig.26
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
- 8/2/2024