ISic000718: I.Sicily inscription 000718

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
ID
ISic000718
Language
Latin
Text type
building
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Manganaro, pending incorporation of autopsy notes;
  • 1: Manganaro: [--?T]rali.[nus --- pro hono]re[ aedilitatis?]
  • 2: Manganaro: [?sedilia c]ircu.[itum - - mamo]re i[npensa sua ref(ecit)]
  • 3: Manganaro does not record the traces of line 3 on fragment (a)

Physical description

Support

Description
Two non-joining fragments of a thick marble plaque, of which one is H 21 x W 34 x D 18 cm, the second H 18 x W 28 x D 9cm. The second fragment preserves part of an upper border element.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragments, non-contiguous
Dimensions
height: cm, width: cm, depth: cm

Inscription

Layout
Remains of three lines of the upper part of an inscription.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-2: 70mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Catina
Provenance found
Found in excavation in 1950/1951 in the Roman theatre of Catania; re-identified in 2016 in storage in the theatre.

Current location

Place
Catania, Italy
Repository
Teatro Romano di Catania
Autopsy
Prag/Metcalfe 2016.

Date

Imperial (AD 1 – AD 400)
Evidence
No data

Text type

building

commentary

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/17/2022