ISic000414: 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 2016-10-10.

ID: ISic000414
Language: Latin
Text type: unknown
Object type: plaque
Status: No data
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Edition

Apparatus criticus

1: Benndorf read LI on the basis of autopsy and squeeze prior to 1883; the traces of the feet of two letters are visible on the break, no more.
5: CIL text shows two verticals after E, but there is no sign of the second on the stone.
7: CIL also reads PP, but citing Benndorf 'aut PP aut SP' (the first letter however cannot be S).

Physical description

Support

Description: Small fragment of a white marble plaque, broken on all sides. Rear face is finished smooth, partly covered by a thin layer of mortar.
Object type: plaque
Material: marble
Condition: fragment
Dimensions: height: 9 cm, width: 6.6 cm, depth: 1.8 cm

Inscription

Layout

Traces of 7 lines of Latin letters, filling the surviving face, evenly laid out.

Text condition

No data

Lettering

Letter heights

Line 1-7: 9-11mm

Interlinear heights

Interlineation line 1 to 2: 1-3mm

Provenance

Place of origin: Syracusae
Provenance found: The museum inventory has a note stating 'forse dalle demolizioni delle fortificazioni' (sc. di Ortygia), but that this is not certain; a further note states that the piece was purchased by the director, Cavallari for the museum, in 1888. Mommsen in CIL, after Benndorf, states that it was found 'recently' (i.e. shortly before 1883) 'al pozzo degli ingegneri ubi forum antiquum fuit, prop portum minorem'. Lanteri 2020 discusses the location of the pozzo in Piazza d'Armi, where several other epigraphic fragments were found in 1888 (ISic000727 and 001667)
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