ISic000408: Monumental Latin fragment

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 2014-09-10.
ID
ISic000408
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • text based on autopsy;
  • 1: Neither Mommsen nor Schubring note the traces of line 1; the two visible letter traces are compatible with an L or E and an O or C.
  • 2: Neither Mommsen nor Schubring note the traces of the letters at the beginning and end of the line

Physical description

Support

Description
Large triangular shaped fragment of a thin marble plaque. Broken on all sides, smooth on the reverse.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
No data
Dimensions
height: 29.1 cm, width: 30.5 cm, depth: 2.1 cm

Inscription

Layout
Traces of three lines of Latin letters, with a vacat below.
Text condition
No data
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1: incompletemm
Line 2: 58-63mm
Line 3: 50-53mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: 38mm
Interlineation line 2 to 3: 43mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Syracusae
Provenance found
The piece is one of several first reported by Schubring 1865 as coming from the Roman site at Contrada Bufardeci, traditionally known as the , and the museum inventory record reads 'Bagno Romano', which refers to the same place. Schubring's autopsy notes from 1865 also attribute this piece to 'Bufardeci'. However, at least one of the pieces so attributed by Schubring is originally from Rome, so this attribution cannot be considered entirely certain. CIL appears to have a typo, describing the provenance as 'Rufardeci'.
Map

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 253
Autopsy
Prag 2014-09-10, MARPO, Magazzino B, cassette 7
Map

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 200)
Evidence
No data

Text type

honorific

commentary

Although certainty is obviously difficult, this seems likely to be an honorific for an individual who held a military tribunate and perhaps the position of praefectus fabrum; the large letters in the top line may be from the individual's name; and the text, given the dative form, is most likely an honorific. All that being so, it may be for a member of the colonia's elite.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
1/19/2021