ISic000402: Mosaic floor recording works dedicated to Venus
- ID
- ISic000402
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- mosaic
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Gaggiotti 2002
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- mosaic
- Material
- stone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Found in Syracuse, 11 February 1576 in the square of the no-longer extant S.Margarita, Piazza de Montedoro, an earlier name for Piazza d'Armi, in the vicinity of the ancient Roman forum
- Map
Current location
Lost.
Date
orthography suggests late Republican date, perhaps late 2nd century BCE (150 BC – 50 BC)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The mosaic is lost, and modern readings are dependent upon an unsatisfactory text recorded in the antiquarian tradition
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491613
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900443
- 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 10.7121
- 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 01.2224 with p.1096
- « L’année épigraphique: revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine. », L’année épigraphique : revue des publications épigraphiques relatives a l’antiquité romaine., 1888, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/630058599, at 2002.0612
- A. Degrassi, Inscriptiones Latinae Liberae Rei Publicae, 2nd edn, 2 vols (Florence: La Nuova Italia, 1965), at 279
- A. Donati, Aemilia tributim discripta: i documenti delle assegnazioni tribali romane della regione romagnola e cispadana, [2. edizione riveduta ed aggiornata] (Faenza: F. Lega, 1967), at 88 no.183
- G. Forni, «Sicilia romana tributim discripta», in Philias Charin. Miscellanea di studi classici in onore di Eugenio Manni, vol. 3, 1980, 949–61, at 959
- 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 30 n.97, 359 n.70
- M. Gaggiotti, «Nuova luce sull’economia della Sicilia romana da una rilettura dell’iscrizione siracusana ILLRP 279», in L’Africa romana. Lo spazio marittimo del Mediterraneo occidentale: geografia storica ed economica. Atti del XIV convegno di studio (Sassari, 7-10 dicembre 2000) (Rome, 2002), 1053–62.
- Lorenzo Campagna, «Architettura pubblica ed evergetismo nella Sicilia di età repubblicana», in La Sicilia romana tra Repubblica e Alto Impero, a c. di C. Miccichè, S. Modeo, e L. Santagati (Caltanissetta: Siciliantica, 2007), 110–34, at 121
- Olga Tribulato, ‘Siculi Bilingues? Latin in the Inscriptions of Early Roman Sicily’, in Language and Linguistic Contact in Ancient Sicily (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2012), 291–325, at 310-312
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 1/19/2021