ISic000721: I.Sicily inscription 000721

This inscription is deprecated.

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
Language
Latin
Text type
honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
No data
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text after Manganaro, controlled against photograph;
  • 1: Manganaro: [(nomen al dat.)]o .[el(?)--]
  • 2: Manganaro: [--- IIIIvir iur(e)] dic[(undo) --- praef]
  • 3: Manganaro: [coh. ---, trib. mil].tum .[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
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 27 cm, width: 20 cm, depth: 3 cm

Inscription

Layout
No data
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

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, Italy
Repository
Autopsy
None

Date

First or second century CE (AD 1 – AD 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.

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Citation and editorial status

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