ISic000418: Fragment of a monumental Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic000418
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- unknown
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- text from autopsy;
- 1: Schubring, Mommsen: .EF
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a marble plaque, broken on all sides, with the trace of a moulding on along the broken lower edge. The reverse was subsequently re-used for another inscription .
- Object type
- plaque
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 15 cm, width: 19.5 cm, depth: 4.2 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- A single line of monumental lettering preserved, with a vacat below to the moulding.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 110mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Schubring in his autopsy notes of 1865 (no.144) states that the piece was found in the area of the great altar of Hieron; Mommsen in CIL states that it was found by Serradifaclo among the ruins of the great altar (but does not reference the source for this claim). Found with ISic000417.
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Autopsy
- Flavio Santini, 2018-09-19, Magazzino B, cassette 50
- Map
Date
Roman Imperial, Nerva or descendants? (AD 96 – AD 209)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
The angle of the left ascending stroke is visible on the initial letter trace, which can only be compatible with N. The third letter has a right descending arm, along the line of the break of the stone, which can only be compatible with a rather rigid/straight 'R'. The combination -]NER[- in a monumental text perhaps suggests the name Nerva (although Nero and forms of Venus are also possible, among other alternatives), which would suggest that this is part of a monumental building inscription associated with one of the emperors of the second century CE.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491647
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 21900481
- 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 10.7138
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 1, p. 71 no. 84
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 6/28/2024