ISic000721: I.Sicily inscription 000721

This inscription is deprecated. Jonathan Prag merged the file into ISic000780 which records the original publication of this fragment with other joining fragments. View inscription ISic000780

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana
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
ISic000721
Status
deprecated
Language
Latin
Object type
plaque
Text type
honorific

Edition

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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Manganaro, controlled against photograph;
  • 1: Manganaro: [(nomen al dat.)]o AÌ£[el(?)--]
  • 2: Manganaro: [--- IIIIvir iur(e)] dic[(undo) --- praef]
  • 3: Manganaro: [coh. ---, trib. mil]iÌ£tum lÌ£[eg(ionis) ---]
  • 4: Manganaro: [--- procurat]ori Au[g(usti)? ---]

Physical description

Support

Description
Fragment of a marble plaque, broken on all sides, but possibly reworked on the right margin.
Object type
plaque
Object condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 27 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 3 cm

Material

Description
marble
Type > subtype
stone.unspecified > unverified

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Technique
chiselled
Pigment
No data
Lettering

Monumental Latin letters of the high empire.

Letter heights
Line 1-4: 42mm
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.

Current location

Place
Catania, Sicilia
Repository
Autopsy
None

Date

First or second century CE (CE 1 - CE 200)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

honorific

commentary

Manganaro published this fragment, observed in the Roman theatre, without realising that it is in fact part of ISic000780, a set of three joining fragments found in 1922 near the Odeon and published in 1923 by Libertini.

Bibliography

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
8/18/2022