ISic000729: I.Sicily inscription 000729

I.Sicily with the permission of the Assessorato Regionale dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana - Dipartimento dei Beni Culturali e dell’Identità Siciliana; photo J. Prag 2015-01-16
ID
ISic000729
Language
Latin
Text type
funerary or honorific
Object type
plaque
Status
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Apparatus criticus

  • Text based on autopsy;
  • 1: Manganaro: D(edicatum?) A. Tedio A. f(ilio) Au[gurino?]; there is no trace of any initial D, nor of the final V (damage, rather than letter stroke)
  • 2: Manganaro: praefec[to---]; trace of T is visible on break
  • 3: Manganaro: Ti(berios) Qu [-(vel Ov-) --]; the visible letters are C (or S), E (or F), I (or L), followed by an interpunct, and then OV

Physical description

Support

Description
Large fragment of a thick slab of blue-grey stone (marble; the inventory speculates African). Top and left sides preserved intact. Top edge and rear left has receiving hold for a clamp to attach to another block behind. Rear is finished, but not smoothed. Broken below and to the right.
Object type
plaque
Material
marble
Condition
fragment
Dimensions
height: 22.1 cm, width: 29.7 cm, depth: 7.5 (top) - 8.4 (base) cm

Inscription

Layout
Larve vacat at top and to left, with three lines of Latin text preserved (the third broken below), of which the second line significantly indented below the first. The text shows signs of decreasing in size and becoming more compressed by line 3.
Text condition
incomplete
Lettering

Letter heights
Line 1-2: 28-29mm
Interlinear heights
Interlineation line 1 to 2: 14-15mm
Interlineation line 2 to 3: 11-13mm

Provenance

Place of origin
Syracusae
Provenance found
According to the inventory, acquired 23 October 1922, coming from S. Lucia, from the vicinity of the Villa Landolina
Map

Current location

Place
Siracusa, Italy
Repository
Museo Archeologico Regionale Paolo Orsi , 43023
Autopsy
Prag, 2015-01-16, Depositi, Mag B, new cass.18
Map

Date

First century CE (AD 1 – AD 100)
Evidence
lettering

Text type

funerary or honorific

commentary

Manganaro's reading (repeated in AE and EDCS) cannot stand. However, it is far from clear how to resolve the letters in line 3, given the clear trace of an interpunct (visible around the hole in the surface), and the likely reading of -CEI or SEI as word end. Given the find-spot, away from known public buildings, but perhaps in secondary use, it is difficult to know if this is part of a funerary monument, or an honorific, although given the size and form, an honorific is perhaps more likely.

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Citation and editorial status

Editor
Jonathan Prag
Principal contributor
Jonathan Prag
Contributors
Last revision
5/25/2025