ISic000539: Fragment of Latin inscription on a marble arch
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- ID
- ISic000539
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- arch
- Status
- draft
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of CIL, after Gualtherus and Cordici ;
- 1: Gualtherus: FIR omitted, lacuna marked; FIR recorded by Ventimiglia (so Mommsen); Cordici: I·PCC, later deleted
- 2: Cordici: EFFE·INPEN, later deleted
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Described by Gualtherus as 'in fornice marmoreo', but the scale / nature of the arch is entirely unclear and no further description is provided.
- Object type
- arch
- Material
- marble
- Object condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- No data
- Text condition
- No data
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Eryx
- Provenance found
- Recorded by Gualtherus as 'apud Vinc. Maiorem'; also recorded in the manuscript of Antonio Cordici, and said there to come from contrada della Piscina Apolline, and subsequently in Cordici's possession.
Current location
Lost
Date
Imperial - possibly to be identified with the proconsul L. Seius on Augustan coinage of Panormus (AD 1 - AD 100)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
Manganaro and Mommsen both noted that the name L.Seius also appears on coins of Panhormus as proconsul of Sicily, in the late Augustan period, and identification with the L. Seius here, making a dedication at Erice, would be attractive, but far from certain. The consul of 18 CE seems less likely, as his cognomen Tubero does not seem to align with the traces variously recorded at the end of line 1 in the antiquarian tradition. P.PEC might be p(osuit) pec(unia).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491761
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22000844
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- G. Gualtherus, Siciliæ obiacentium insular. et Bruttiorum antiquæ tabulæ, cum animadversionib (Messanae: apvd Petrvs Bream, 1624), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Gualtieri1624, at no. 156
- Gabriele Lancillotto Castelli principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio (Panormus: Excudebat Cajetanus Maria Bentivenga, 1769), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1769, at cl. 7, no. 24
- Gabriello Lancellotto Castelli Principe di Torremuzza, Siciliae et objacentium insularum veterum inscriptionum nova collectio prolegomenis et notis illustrata, et iterum cum emendationibus, & auctariis evulgata, 2nd (1st is 1769) (Palermo: typis regiis, 1784), http://arachne.uni-koeln.de/books/Castelli1784, at cl. 7, no. 25
- 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 7259
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Tacfarinas e la Sicilia (ovvero L. Apronius e il santuario ericino», in L’Africa Romana. Atti del IV convegno di studio, Sassari, 12-14 dicembre 1986, a c. di A. Mastino, vol. 2, 2 voll. (Sassari, 1987), 581–85, at 583
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 22 n.83
- Livia Bivona, «La documentazione epigrafica latina in area elima», in Atti delle terze giornate internazionali di studi sull’area elima (Gibellina, Erice, Contessa Entellina, 23-26 ottobre 1997), vol. 1 (Pisa-Gibellina, 2000), 153–66, at 155
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 12/4/2025