ISic000588: I.Sicily inscription 000588
- ID
- ISic000588
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- dedication
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- line.1: [Liviae · Au]gusti, Mommsen, Salinas
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A block of the local pink 'breccia di San Marco' with white veins. Intact top and right, but broken to left, below, and behind.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- breccia
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 14 cm, width: 30 cm, depth: 19 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- An incomplete single line of Latin letters with a vacat above; the right margin is intact
- Text condition
- No data
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 55mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Haluntium
- Provenance found
- First noted by Gualtherus in the church of S.Maria 'ad nives' below the Norman Castle, which is perhaps Santa Maria in/di Aracoeli
Current location
- Place
- S. Marco d'Alunzio, Italy
- Repository
- Museo della cultura e delle Arti Figurative Bizantine e Normanne
- Autopsy
- Part of the inscription seen by Mommsen and Salinas in the steps of the Convento dei Cappuccini
- Map
Date
After 42 CE (Livia dea) (AD 42 – AD 68)- Evidence
- prosopography
Text type
commentary
Salinas in NSA 1880: 194 no.10, followed by Mommsen in CIL 10.7464, assumed that the fragment which they saw reading [- - -]GVSTI, in the convent of the Cappuccini was a fragment of the text seen in full by earlier authors starting with Gualtherus and recording a dedication to the deified Livia by the municipium. This fragment was published by Bonanno in 1997/98, after being relocated in the same convent dei Cappuccini (albeit in a different place, on the roof rather than in the steps) in the 1990s. Bonanno did not connect the fragment with the previously recorded text, but given that the fragment is from the upper right of a block and the overlap of location and text it seems a reasonable assumption that this is the surviving fragment of the text first recorded by Gualtherus, notwithstanding the fact that Mommsen and Salinas only read [--]gusti (if the block was, at the time, still embedded in a staircase, it may not have been entirely visible).
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 491845
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 22100583
- 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 308
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 194-195 no.10
- 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 10.7464
- « 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 2001.1108
- H. Dessau, Inscriptiones Latinae Selectae, 3 vols (Berlin: Weidmann, 1892), at 119
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 48
- C. Bonanno, «Scavi e indagini nel territorio di Caronia e San Marco d’Alunzio», Kokalos 43–44, fasc. 2.1 (1998 1997): 423–51, at 448 tav.107.2
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