ISic000623: Fragmentary Latin inscription
- ID
- ISic000623
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- unknown
- Status
- No data
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Loading...
Apparatus criticus
- Text based upon drawing in NSA 1954
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of a marble slab, broken on all sides
- Object type
- unknown
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of two lines of Latin letters
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Lines 1-2: mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Abacaenum
- Provenance found
- Found in excavations during March 1952 in the presumed area of the ancient city, the area of trenches 6 and 8 (not precisely located) in the Piano between Pizzo Cisterna and the Castello
- Map
Current location
- Place
- (near) Tripi, Italy
- Repository
- Autopsy
- None
Date
Presumably 1st or 2nd century CE (AD 1 – AD 200)- Evidence
- No data
Text type
commentary
This is the only Latin inscription from the vicinity of Tripi (ancient Abacaenum/Abakainon) and the apparent reference to a duumvir is commonly understood to indicate that the town had the status of a (Latin) municipium by some time in the first (or second) century AD. However, it is also often suggested that the settlement fell within the territory of the colonia of Tyndaris in the imperial period.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175831
- EDR: 074064
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 13700406
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- 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 49-50 fig.4
- « 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 1955.0195
- R.J.A. Wilson, Sicily under the Roman Empire: The Archaeology of a Roman Province, 36 B.C. - A.D. 535 (Warminster: Aris and Philips, 1990), at 43 n.96
- G.M. Bacci e P. Coppolino, La Necropoli di Abakainon: primi dati (Messina: Regione Siciliana, 2009), at 13 fig.2
- Girolamo Sofia, Abakainon. Nella dimora di Ade. La necropoli in contrada Cardusa a Tripi (Terme Vigliatore (ME): Giambra editore, 2015), at 109 fig.114
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