ISic000519: I.Sicily inscription 000519
- ID
- ISic000519
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- base
- Status
- No data
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Apparatus criticus
- text derived originally from EDR ;
- line4: The letters QR at the end of the line are smaller, and between interpuncts. Mommsen (CIL) read CENTINI · EQR; the reading here is that of Marino and Forni, and appears better to reflect what is visible on the stone
Physical description
Support
- Description
- No data
- Object type
- base
- 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
- Lilybaeum
- Provenance found
- Original discovery not recorded.
Current location
- Place
- Marsala, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Civico di Marsala
- Autopsy
- Display no.1
- Map
Date
(Unknown – Unknown)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
Forni, following the reading of Marino of line 4, argues that this an abbreviation for the tribal Quirina, of a form known only in Africa and Numidia, i.e. areas of Punic culture. On the basis that Lilybaeum is also such an area, he suggests the same model, namely an abbreviation showing semitic influence, omitting vowels (examples offered by Forni are, from Africa CIL 8.1686, 1737, 6117; I.L.Alg. 2.4361, 4758, 4919, 5343, 5908). Bivona, in Kokalos 26-27 (1980-81), 408 rejects this view. Fresh autopsy is perhaps required.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175714
- EDR: 080558
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22000825
- 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 10.7239
- « 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 1987.0467
- R. Marino, «Su alcune iscrizioni latine del palazzo municipale di Marsala», Kokalos 24 (1978): 77–111, at 98-100
- G. Forni, «La tribù romana quirina indicata alla punica in epigrafi latine», Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 57 (1984): 160–62, at 160-162 taf.13a
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 44
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