ISic000724: Fragment of an Augustan honorific(?)
- ID
- ISic000724
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- honorific
- Object type
- block
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Edition
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Apparatus criticus
- Text of Manganaro (1989), p. 181.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- Block broken on the left, possibly above and below, but seemingly intact on the right.
- Object type
- block
- Material
- limestone
- Condition
- No data
- Dimensions
- height: 34 cm, width: 92 cm, depth: 70 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- Two lines of monumental letters, almost no spacing between the lines, with guidelines visible across the top of line 1.
- Text condition
- No data
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1-2: 165mm
- Interlinear heights
- Interlineation line 1 to 2: mm
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Recovered from the demolition of the fortifications of Siracusa/Ortigia, May 1892. Photographed by Manganaro in the Soprintendenza stores in the 1960s, whence his later edition, but not seen more recently
- Map
Current location
Lost? not so far located in the museum.
Date
Manganaro argues for c.36 BC in specific context of the civil war; a civil war or Augustan date more generally is plausible. (43 BC – AD 14)- Evidence
- textual-context
Text type
commentary
Manganaro proposed expanding to [C. Iulio Caesari] imp(eratori) Div[i f(ilio) / [? triumviro r.p.c. st]atua dic(ata), although there is no obvious parallel for 'imp(erator) div(i [filius]' (Manganaro points to ILS 76 and 8893). The form of the letters is notable, a relatively shallow square cut, not a v-cut, implying that they were filled with a material. The text has not yet been located, but a photograph taken by Manganaro in the 1960s is preserved and here reproduced.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 175778
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 6100280
- 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 1989.0342b
- Paolo Orsi, «Frammenti epigrafici sicelioti», Rivista di storia antica 5 (1900): 39–66, at 65 no.51
- Giacomo Manganaro, «La Sicilia da Sesto Pompeo a Diocleziano», Aufstieg und Niedergang der romischen Welt 2.11.1 (1988): 3–89, at 46 n.228
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 181 no.57 fig.61
Citation and editorial status
- Editor
- Jonathan Prag
- Principal contributor
- Jonathan Prag
- Contributors
- Jonathan Prag
- James Cummings
- James Chartrand
- Valeria Vitale
- Michael Metcalfe
- Tuuli Ahlholm
- Simona Stoyanova
- system
- Last revision
- 8/14/2023