ISic000309: I.Sicily inscription 000309

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 J. Prag 2016-10-14
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 J. Prag 2016-10-14
ID
ISic000309
Language
Latin
Status
draft
Text type
list of magistrates
Object type

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Korhonen 2004 and comparison with photograph

Physical description

Support

Description
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Object type
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Object condition
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Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Material

Description
Strongly altered marble, likely unspecified (identification based on pXRF)
Type > subtype
stone.marble > unspecified

Inscription

Layout
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Text condition
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Technique
chiselled
Pigment
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Lettering
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Letter heights
Line 1: mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Said by Torremuzza to be excavated in Catania in 1773; subsequently in the Biscari collection, now the civic museum (sala IX.86).

Current location

Place
Catania, Sicilia
Repository
Museo Civico di Catania
907
Autopsy
None
Map

Date

List of magistrates of Catania from years 268—269 CE, by consular date (AD 268 - AD 269)
Evidence
internal-date

Text type

list of magistrates

commentary

Plausibly suggested by Manganaro, followed by Korhonen, to be a fragment of a list of the local colonial magistrates, annually, under the consuls of the year; and so dating to 268-269 CE.

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
12/8/2025