ISic000368: I.Sicily inscription 000368
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Apparatus criticus
- Text after Korhonen 2004, checked against photograph
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A rectangular marble plaque, intact on all sides (a chip to the lower edge), with traces of mortar around the edges. The rear is plainly finished.
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 18.5 cm, width: 29.5 cm, depth: 3.5 cm
Material
- Description
- Very fine-grained, homogeneous, white, calcitic marble, likely Lunense. Optical microscopy: homeoblastic to heteroblastic fabric with triple points, mosaic microstructure. Digital microscopy: homeoblastic fabric (identification based on pXRF, XRD, optical microscopy, stable isotopes analysis)
- Type > subtype
- stone.marble > Lunense
- Provenance
- Carrara
- Map
Inscription
- Layout
- Four lines of Latin text, with line 1 not exactly centred (left of centre), and a roughly uniform left margin lines for lines 2-4. Line 1 is larger. The text is heavily repainted with a brown paint.
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1-4: 17-31mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Catina
- Provenance found
- Dug up outside the Porta Stesicohori, prior to 1741.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Catania, Sicilia
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Catania
- 575
- Autopsy
- sala VII.219, mag. sup.
- Map
Date
Second half of 1st century CE or 2nd century CE (Korhonen) (AD 51 - AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491579
- EDR: 139163
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900408
- 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 7086
- Kalle Korhonen, Le iscrizioni del Museo civico di Catania : storia delle collezioni, cultura epigrafica, edizione (Helsinki: Societas Scientiarum Fennica, 2004), at 121
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 1/17/2024