ISic000315: Fragmentary inscription of a civic magistrate
- ID
- ISic000315
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Line1: Text restored on the parallel of ISic000337
- Line2: Text restored on the parallel of ISic000337
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a white marble slab. The left margin is preserved, but otherwise broken top, right, and below. The rear is finished and smooth. The left edge is finished and smooth. A moulding is preserved on the left side, 3.5 cm wide, and beginning 4.7 cm in from the left edge.
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 17.8 cm, width: 26.3 cm, depth: 3.5-3.8 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Beginning of two lines of Latin letters, set within the moulding. Red paint is preserved in some of the letters.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: greater than 30mm
- Line 2: greater than 41mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: 62mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Probably from Catania
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania , no inventory number
- Autopsy
- Display, Voci di pietra no.11
- Map
Date
1st century CE, or beginning 2nd century CE (so Korhonen) (AD 1 – AD 125)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Although none of the texts of ISic000337, 0315 or 0316 join together, and all show minor differences in form or material (e.g. compare the moulding on each), the text presented on each appears to be the same. A manuscript in the Vatican library records a fourth, similar fragment seen in the Museo dei Benedettini by C. Stevenson in the 1880s. The text, which may be common to all these fragmentary inscriptions, can be restored as it has been here.
The texts are probably honorific inscriptions. Marble slabs of this sort are commonly attached to a statue base or similar monument. The base itself would be made out of a different, cheaper, local stone (e.g. volcanic stone), the more expensive imported marble reserved for the inscription. The existence of multiple texts, apparently for the same person, has two possible explanations: either the same honorific inscription was repeated on all four(?) sides of the statue base or other monument; or else there were multiple honorific statues or monuments in Catania for this one individual (both possibilities are attested elsewhere). The remainder of the inscription will have included details of the rest of his career (compare the inscriptions for Quintus Atilius Severus (also of the Claudian tribe) and Lucius Rubrius Proculus). Lucius Caelius Macer is one of five duumviri known from Roman Catania.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491522
- EDR: 139969
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900350
- 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 10.7031
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 20
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Serena Agodi
- system
- Simona Stoyanova
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021