ISic000674: Fragment of a public inscription (imperial honorific?)
- ID
- ISic000674
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- plaque
- Status
- edited
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- 1: The very foot of a letter is visible to the left of the V in line 1, most plausibly an A
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Fragment of corroded crystalline marble, broken and worn on all sides, with a coarse discoloured surface. The front face appears slight convex, the rear flat (but fixed to a wall).
- Object type
- plaque
- Object condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 19.7 cm, width: 21.5 cm, depth: 2.9-3.6 cm
Material
- Description
- marble
Inscription
- Layout
- Remains of two lines of monumental Latin letters. Traces of guidelines preserved to top and bottom of lines.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Technique
- chiselled
- Pigment
- No data
- Lettering
Neat v-cut letters with serifs, now heavily worn; only line 2 preserved to full height.
- Letter heights
- Line 2: 108mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Tyndaris
- Provenance found
- Found on the site, but no further information is available.
Current location
- Place
- Tindari, Sicilia
- Repository
- Antiquarium di Tindari , ME 28743
- Autopsy
- Prag, 2022-07-12, in the antiquarium
- Map
Date
Assuming this is the title Parthicus, employed between Trajan and Aurelian, but likely not later than Severus (AD 114 - AD 211)- Evidence
- titulature
Text type
commentary
Manganaro very plausibly suggested that, in the context of a large marble inscription of this sort, ART is most likely from the imperial title 'Parthicus'. However, his attribution to Marcus Aurelius, while attractive is hardly certain, since the title is first accorded to Trajan, and to multiple emperors subsequently up to Aurelian. That said, with the form of the letters, it seems unlikely to be later than Septimius Severus.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175743
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100251
- 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 1989.0338d
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 162 no.5 fig.5
- M. Fasolo, Tyndaris e il suo territorio. Volume 1. Introduzione alla carta archeologica del territorio di Tindari (Rome: MediaGEO, 2013), at 78 no.15 fig.44
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Last revision
- 3/5/2026