ISic000727: I.Sicily inscription 000727
- ID
- ISic000727
- Language
- Latin
- Text type
- building
- Object type
- architrave
- Status
- No data
- Links
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Apparatus criticus
- Text from autopsy;
- Manganaro 1989 reads a line above the preserved one: [- - -]tr(ibunicia) pot(estate)[- - -]; there are a number of marks (damage, etc.) on the stone on the uppermost part of the front face, above the moulding, but nothing compatible with a text.
Physical description
Support
- Description
- A large block of crystalline off-white marble, finished flat across the base, broken to left and right, with the front face mostly preserved. The top presents a rounded surface, partly damaged. The rear is damaged / broken off also. The front face presents three flat surfaces at different depths, with a rounded moulding separating the upper two layers; the text is on the middle of the three surfaces, below the moulding. The block seems likely to be part of an architrave or moulding from a structure.
- Object type
- architrave
- Material
- marble
- Condition
- fragment
- Dimensions
- height: 37 cm, width: 60 cm, depth: 30.5 cm
Inscription
- Layout
- The text is engraved in a single line across the middle of the three vertical surfaces on the front face of the stone.
- Text condition
- incomplete
- Lettering
-
- Letter heights
- Line 1: 60-70mm
- Interlinear heights
Provenance
- Place of origin
- Syracusae
- Provenance found
- Recovered from Piazza d'Armi, the site of the Roman forum 'presso il pozzo dell'Ingegnere'
- Map
Current location
- Place
- Siracusa, Italy
- Repository
- Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi
- Autopsy
- Prag 2018-03-15
- Map
Date
The formula perpetuus Augustus is typical of the fourth century (AD 300 – AD 399)- Evidence
- titulature
Text type
commentary
The text was originally published by Orsi, and recorded in his taccuini at the same time, in late 1888. Orsi only recorded the letters ERPETVVSAVG, and autopsy confirms this reading. There is nothing to support the proposed additional line read by Manganaro (1989) on the upper part of the front face.
Bibliography
- Digital editions
- TM: 492380
- EDR: -
- EDH: -
- EDCS: 32701115
- PHI: -
- Printed editions
- W. Henzen and K. F. W. Zangemeister, Ephemeris Epigraphica. Corporis Inscriptionum Latinarum Supplementum, Edita Iussu Instituti Archaeologici Romani, 9 vols (Berlin: G. Reimerum, 1872), at VIII 684
- Accademia nazionale dei Lincei, Istituto nazionale di archeologia e storia dell’arte (Italy), e Reale Accademia d’Italia, «Notizie degli scavi di antichità », Notizie degli Scavi di Antichità , 1876, http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/1646037, at 372
- Giacomo Manganaro, «Iscrizioni Latine nuove e vecchie della Sicilia», Epigraphica 51 (1989): 161–96, at 181 no.60 fig.64
- Paolo Orsi, I Taccuini. I. Riproduzione anastatica e trascrizione dei Taccuini 1-4, a c. di Gioconda Lamagna e Giuseppina Monterosso, Accademia Nazionale dei Lincei. Monumenti Antichi. Serie Miscellanea 20 (Rome: Giorgio Bretschneider Editore, 2018), at Tacc. 2, p. 50
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
- 6/2/2021