ISic000630: Honours for L. Cassius Manilianus
- ID
- ISic000630
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- stele
- Status
- edited
- Links
- View in current site
Edition
Apparatus criticus
- Text after Bivona, controlled against photographs;
- 4: Bivona: insigne(m); Jacques: insignem
- 6: Bivona, Jacques: praestanti; lapis; praestante
- 8: Jacques: splend[idu]s
- 9: Jacques: decre(vit) popu(li) [suffr]agio
- 10: Bivona: .. aliam; Jacques: [e]t aliam
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A stele of the local compact white limestone, broken in three pieces, with an area of loss/damage in the centre, and a small section missing from the middle right margin.
- Object type
- stele
- Material
- limestone
- Object condition
- complete, broken
- Dimensions
- height: 118 cm, width: 56 cm, depth: 15 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is laid out in 11 lines over the upper part of the stone, filling the available width, with the last line centred and a vacat below. The initial lines are slightly more widely spaced.
- Text condition
- complete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Tall narrow letters, but the first three lines show a wider module and straighter, more 'monumental' style.
- Letter heights
- Line 1-11: 60mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Mazara
- Provenance found
- Found in the area of Piazza Mokarta. When first presented in editions in the 1980s the three fragments were joined together and set in a wall; in 2002 they were separately in the courtyard of the biblioteca communale; in 2015 at least the main fragment was on display in the Museo Mirabilia Urbis.
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Mazara del Vallo, Italy
- Repository
- Mirabilia Urbis ,
- Autopsy
- No autopsy, but observed by Prag 2002-07-01 and Metcalfe 2015-11-12
- Map
Date
3rd century CE (AD 201 - AD 300)- Evidence
- lettering, textual-context
Text type
commentary
Cassius might be the same man as recorded in an inscription from Furnos in Africa Prconsularis (CIL VIII.23801), of the same period (so Bivona). He is one of several curatores of Lilybaeum known in the third century (the inscription dates to this period palaeographically and on the basis of the cursus described). Jacques and Bivona published their editions contemporaneously but independently of one another; the former working only from the photograph published by Manganaro. In general Bivona's readings are to be preferred, but Wilson's proposed reading of line 10 (statiam for statuam) is both more logical and also aligns with the traces on the stone, which suggest T rather than L.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175815
- EDR: 081934
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 5200285
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- « 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 1990.0438
- F. Napoli, Spigolature storiche di Mazara antica (Marsala, 1923), at 155-159
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 53 tav.XXII.34
- 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 326 n.36 fig.278
- F. Jacques, « Remarques sur Lucius Cassius Manilianus et sa Carriere », Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84 (1990): 163‑70, at 11-23
- F. Jacques, « Remarques sur Lucius Cassius Manilianus et sa Carriere », Zeitschrift für Papyrologie und Epigraphik 84 (1990): 163‑70, at 163-170
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 11/21/2025