ISic000401: Candelabrum dedicated to Minerva

Apparatus criticus

• Text based upon autopsy

Physical description

Support

Description

Part of a marble candelabrum, ovoid in shape, with a moulding around the upper part (below which runs the inscription), and floral decoration in light relief on the body; a square socket with circular hole at the base of the surviving section.

Object type

candelabrum

Material

marble

Condition

complete

Dimensions

height: 82 cm, width: 28 cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout

The inscription runs around one side of the upper part of the surviving section, immediately below a rounded rim moulding. The epigraphic field is 34 cm long, and 6.5 cm high.

Text condition

complete

Technique

chiselled

Pigment

No data

Lettering

Letters to to slightly cursive in form, with serifs, especially on the M an the A; E and L are narrow.

Letter heights

Line 1-2: 22-28mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin

Syracusae

Provenance found

Inventory notes found in 'podere di Rizza'; CIL observes in 1876 together with an aedicula thought to be of Cybele, in 1876 in a well in Achradina.

Current location

Place

Siracusa, Italy

Repository

Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 229

Autopsy

Prag 2022-04-28

Map

Date

Evidence

No data

Text type

dedication

commentary

Bibliography

Digital editions

• TM: 491612
• EDR: -
• EDH: -
• EDCS: 21900442
• 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 7120

Citation and editorial status

Editor

Jonathan Prag

Principal contributor

Jonathan Prag

Contributors

• Jonathan Prag
• James Cummings
• Simona Stoyanova

Last revision

4/10/2022