ISic000312: Inscribed statue base for Lucius Rubrius Proculus
- ID
- ISic000312
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- statue base
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Rectangular block of black lava stone. All four sides are cut straight and the block appears to be intact. On the upper surface a depression across the rear half, flanked by two holes for metal clamps adjoining the rear edge, suggests both that a second block stood at the rear and that something, presumably an honorific statue, stood on top.
- Object type
- statue base
- Material
- volcanic
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 78 cm, width: 83 cm, depth: 36 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin text, centred on the stone and filling the face, slightly decreasing in size from line 1.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 120-130mm
- Line 3-4: 90-110mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Found in the excavation of the foundations of the 'Cappellone' of the Chiesa di S.Agata la Vetera, in 1767, and transferred to the Biscari collection.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , 1335
- Autopsy
- Museum courtyard
- Map
Date
Lettering and absence of filiation suggest a 2nd century CE date (Korhonen) (AD 101 – AD 200)- Evidence
- lettering
Text type
commentary
The only attestation for Catania of a duumvir quinquennalis
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491519
- EDR: 139968
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900347
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at 52 cl.5 no.35
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at 57 cl.5 no.36
- F. Ferrara, Storia di Catania sino alla fine del secolo XVIII (Catania, 1829), at 283 no.1
- 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 10.7028
- Guido Libertini, Il Castello Ursino e le raccolte artistiche comunali di Catania (Zuccarello e Izzi, 1937), http://books.google.co.uk/books?id=lQL9ygAACAAJ, at 68
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at tav.15
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 172 fig.144
- Concetta Molè Ventura, «Catania in età imperiale», in Catania Antica. Atti del Convegno della S.I.S.A.C. (Catania 23-24 maggio 1992), a c. di B. Gentile (Pisa, 1996), 175–222, at 184, 190
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 21
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021