ISic000407: Fragmentary Latin inscription

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2015-10-22.
ID
ISic000407
Language
Latin
Text type
unknown
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text from autopsy;
  • 1: Mommsen: C · M · V; Schubring: EMV
  • 2: Mommsen: .ILIA · S.; Schubring: IILAS; the final letter could be O or C
  • 3: Mommsen, Schubring: omitted

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a thick plaque of grey marble. Intact on the lower edge, but broken on the other three sides. The rear is only pick-finished. Part of the face is lost to the lower right.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 15 cm, width: 14 cm, depth: 4.2-4.5 cm

Inscription

Layout
Three lines of Latin letters, with vacat in line 3.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-2: 33-37mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Syracusae
Provenance found
Original discovery not recorded, first record appears to be the autopsy notes of Schubring c.1865 (currently in the CIL archive), subsequently recorded in the initial inventory in c.1888 and seen by Mommsen prior to 1883.

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 283
Autopsy
Prag 2015-10-21, cassette 29, magazzino B, MARPO.
Map

Date

second to fourth century CE (AD 100 – AD 400)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

unknown

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
6/4/2024